[PATCH 01/20] mtd: pxa3xx-nand: replace pxa_request_dma with dmaengine

Daniel Mack zonque at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 02:42:41 EDT 2013


On 07.08.2013 19:46, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> From: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao at marvell.com>
>>
>> [zonque at gmail.com: rebased in top of l2-mtd.git. The newly introduced
>> ARCH_HAS_DMA hack was changed into a check for CONFIG_HAS_DMA]
>>
> 
> Are you sure you need to introduce the CONFIG_HAS_DMA ifdef?
> 
> The reason I introduced the ARCH_HAS_DMA macro was to avoid including
> the "mach/dma.h" header. Now that you've removed it, I don't think
> this driver can be used in any platform where CONFIG_HAS_DMA=n.

Well, yes it can, or at least you could decide to use it without DMA on
PXA/MMP. The idea of CONFIG_HAS_DMA is to save binary size.


Daniel





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