[PATCH 8/8] spi: sirf: make DMA transfer mode optional

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 17:55:53 PDT 2014



On 14-9-6 下午9:55, "Mark Brown" <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:14:17PM +0800, Barry Song wrote:
>
>> i have no strong technical reason for this as the benefit is not
>> always technical. you know....the commit log has provided the reason
>> for this patch.
>> the difficulty for me is maintaining the difference between mainline
>> and local codes, but if we have to maintain two copies,  we can.
>
>OK, well I think that's best though it would be better if we were able
>to understand what benefit your customers believe they are seeing here
>and hopefully address it in a better way.  Doing this sort of thing with
>Kconfig options is not great, especially when you start trying to build
>kernels that work with more than one board.

my goal is doubling-check this with customers, if there is no problem,
drop this one as it is not a valid technical solution.

-barry






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