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

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 8 06:12:23 EDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:42:41AM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, I see.

I think maybe we will have to add something to force use_dma=0
when "armada370-nand" is used. AFAIK, the dmaengine does not support
the kind of DMA operations this driver needs.

I can take care of that if this patchset hits mainline before
we have something really usable for Armada 370/XP NAND.

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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