[PATCH 3/3] MTD/atmel_nand: Fix support for CPUs that do not support DMA access

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 09:37:44 EDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 15:37 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Le 01/04/2011 14:54, Artem Bityutskiy :
> > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:26 +0800, Hong Xu wrote:
> >> use_dma was always "1" even if the CPU does not support DMA
> >>
> >> Tested on AT91SAM9261EK by Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hong Xu <hong.xu at atmel.com>
> > 
> > Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git tree. This looks like a candidate for the
> > stable tree - should it be sent there?
> 
> Well, definitively the whole series is a candidate for .39-xx (also with
> the "[PATCH] MTD: atmel_nand: Fall back to CPU I/O when buffer is in
> vmalloc(ed) region" that follows.
> 
> But, as DMA access was not included in .38, stable tree should not be
> impacted.

I see, then this is not -stable material. But should be merged this
merge window.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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