[PATCH V2 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM_AMBA, selected by STA2X11

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 01:19:40PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 July 2012, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
>> >    drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c: needs <asm/hardware/pl080.h>
>> >      proposed fix: move pl080.h to include/linux
>>
>> Note that there is already an include/linux/amba/pl08x.h.
>> I would just move the few parts of pl080.h that are actually
>> needed with global visibility there, and move the rest
>> to drivers/dma/.
>
> NAK.  It's the entire register definitions for the PL08x, which we really
> should not be exporting to common code.

The major reason why that file is there is that there is *another*
PL080 driver in arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/dma.c which I repeatedly
asked the Samsung people to replace with the
drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c driver. :-(

When I worked on the PL08x driver in drivers/dma I reused
this header to avoid code duplication.

Now that thing is stranding in the way. Alim, Kukjin, what's happening?

I feel tempted to update Alim's patch myself and push it on you
soon...

> Please wait until _after_ my DMA engine stuff (which is now in linux-next)
> makes its way upstream before touching any of this stuff, otherwise there's
> going to be conflicts.

That stuff is in now, looking real good. Good work on this!

> As part of my patch series, this gets rid of a number of uses of it in
> arch/arm, but there's still the .cctl_memcpy initializer which does. I've
> not yet checked whether all implementations use the same value (they
> probably do), and if so then it should be eliminated from platform code
> and moved into the driver.

Sounds like a plan. If we just get rid of the duplicate implementation
we're going somewhere.

Yours,
Linus Walleij