[PATCH v7 1/3] MTD : add the common code for GPMI-NFC controller driver

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:00:39PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 
> > > > Still, the problem exists: When a second channel GPMI channel is
> > > > requested, dmaengine will return -EBUSY, because the DMAIRQ is already
> > > > taken.
> > > >
> > > Yes, we should change the DMA code, it is a DMA bug.
> > > I ever submitted a patch about the issue:
> > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/87145/
> > 
> > That approach was rejected because it would register the same handler
> > n-times where one time would do. Your other approach puts too much
> > mach-specific details into the driver IMO and probably won't scale very
> > well. Maybe we should add something to the private dma_data (like flags
> > indicating SHARED) and then do some refcounting?
> > 
> I would suggest leave this gpmi specific quirk to gpmi driver to sort
> out.  With the following mxs-dma change, it should work if gpmi driver
> can pass the valid gpmi irq number for only one gpmi channel, and -1
> for all others.

...which brings us right into the 'NO_IRQ is 0' discussion :)

Other than that, [thinking loud] this will help if all irq-sharing
channels are handled by the same driver. If not, we would just add
IRQF_SHARED (hopefully this will never be needed). Yup, sounds
reasonable to me. Will give it a second thought later, though.

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