[PATCH v3 01/10] platform_data: edma: Be precise with the paRAM struct

[Peter Ujfalusi]

On 05/27/2014 12:32 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com> wrote:
>> The edmacc_param struct should follow the layout of the paRAM area in the
>> HW. Be explicit on the size of the fields (u32) and also mark the struct
>> as packed to avoid any padding on non 32bit architectures.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com>
>> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes <joelf at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/platform_data/edma.h | 18 +++++++++---------
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/edma.h b/include/linux/platform_data/edma.h
>> index f50821cb64be..923f8a3e4ce0 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/platform_data/edma.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/platform_data/edma.h
>> @@ -43,15 +43,15 @@
>>
>>  /* PaRAM slots are laid out like this */
>>  struct edmacc_param {
>> -       unsigned int opt;
>> -       unsigned int src;
>> -       unsigned int a_b_cnt;
>> -       unsigned int dst;
>> -       unsigned int src_dst_bidx;
>> -       unsigned int link_bcntrld;
>> -       unsigned int src_dst_cidx;
>> -       unsigned int ccnt;
>> -};
>> +       u32 opt;
>> +       u32 src;
>> +       u32 a_b_cnt;
>> +       u32 dst;
>> +       u32 src_dst_bidx;
>> +       u32 link_bcntrld;
>> +       u32 src_dst_cidx;
>> +       u32 ccnt;
>> +} __packed;
>>
>>  /* fields in edmacc_param.opt */
>>  #define SAM            BIT(0)
> 
> I came across this patch when I was looking at a pull request from
> Sekhar for EDMA cleanups, and it made me look closer at the contents
> of this file.
> 
> The include/linux/platform_data/ directory is meant to hold
> platform_data definitions for drivers, and nothing more.
> platform_data/edma.h also contains a whole bunch of interface
> definitions for the driver. They do not belong there, and should be
> moved to a different include file.
> 
> That also includes the above struct, because as far as I can tell it's
> a runtime state structure, not something that is passed in with
> platform data.
> 
> Can someone please clean this up? Thanks.

I think Joel is working on to move/merge the code from arch/arm/common/edma.c
to drivers/dma/edma.c
I'm sure within this work he is going to clean up the header file as well.
As a first step I think the non platform_data content can be moved as
include/linux/edma.h or probably as ti-edma.h?

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