[PATCH 3/4] net: mvneta: Remove unnecessary DMA ops

Jan Lübbe jlu at pengutronix.de
Fri Apr 10 09:09:57 PDT 2015


On Fr, 2015-04-10 at 10:18 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> However, I do agree that balancing the calls makes sense as long as we
> cannot guarantee that receive buffers are treated read-only and
> transmit buffers write-only.
> 
> So, the NACK is correct, please drop this patch.

Lucas,

do we need some barebox-specific documentation on how to use the DMA API
in network drivers (because RX buffers are not always read-only)? It
seems several people got confused the same way.

Regards,
Jan
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