[PATCH] dmaengine: shdma: fix a build failure on platforms with no DMA support

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Mon Jul 8 03:21:14 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:52:16AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:32:18PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> >> Hi Vinod
> >>
> >> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > [...]
> >> >
> >> > > thanks for this. I will wait for a refresh (as we discussed earlier today).
> >> > > Can I confirm that this is a fix for v3.10? If so, could ou note
> >> > > that when you post your revised patch?
> >> >
> >> > Any progress on this patch?
> >> >
> >> > The SH-mobile defconfigs are still all failing in linux-next.
> >>
> >> In
> >>
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2640061/
> > And you havent CC maintainers on this patch, so I dont have it!
> >>
> >> I proposed a simple immediate fix for this problem. Arnd at the same time
> >> developed an alternative solution:
> >>
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2644121/
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2644111/
> > Reading these patches I agree with Arnd that client drivers should not depend on
> > dma slave drivers. Existing issue need to be fixed
> >
> > Arnd, Have you merged these changes?
> 
> Looks like we now have breakage in linux-next for this again (new
> breakage due to the header file move being applied by you on Friday,
> Vinod? Are you planning on sending the code in for 3.11? If not, you
> shouldn't apply patches right now).
Well they were already in my tree since 18th June. (tree was rebased to fixup for
pull on friday) and now these are in Linus's tree.

Can we have a fix for breakage for now sent to linus for now and then address the
proper way to do this?

~Vinod



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