[PATCH v7 3/4] drivers: of: add initialization code for dma reserved memory

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 16 03:25:44 EDT 2013


On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 09:12 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 
> Fixing those issues requires further discussion. Frankly, right now I
> really have no idea which way should I go. The /reserved-ranges node seems
> to be easy to match particular reserved memory region with a given device.
> I'm also not really convinced if it makes sense to add a code for finding
> and matching a reserved memory region to every device driver, which might
> need it. I would really like to get some more feedback on the Ben's
> comment.
> 
> In any case, the code will also change significantly, so I assume that the
> best, what can be done now is to revert the current version and start from
> the scratch with a new, complete proposal.

Yes, let's do that. I will try to help. It shouldn't be that a big deal.

Worst case, how many of us will meet physically next month in Edinburgh ?

Cheers,
Ben.





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