[PATCH v4] dmaengine: add CSR SiRFprimaII DMAC driver

Barry Song Barry.Song at csr.com
Thu Oct 27 04:31:08 EDT 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org
> [mailto:linux-arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Vinod Koul
> Sent: 2011年10月27日 16:19
> To: Barry Song
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Jassi Brar; Linus Walleij; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> DL-SHA-WorkGroupLinux; Rongjun Ying; Barry Song;
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] dmaengine: add CSR SiRFprimaII DMAC driver
> 
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 20:08 -0700, Barry Song wrote:
> > From: Rongjun Ying <Rongjun.Ying at csr.com>
> >
> > Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Rongjun Ying <rongjun.ying at csr.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song at csr.com>
> > ---
> >  -v4:
> >  add error handler in probe;
> >  free resource in remove;
> >  add necessary comments in source codes;
> >  fix the mismatch of license between file head and MODULE_LINCENSE;
> >  define MACRO to replace magic number for xlen/dma_width boundary.
> Barry,
> 
> You should _always_ run checkpatch before sending patches. It should
> have 0 errors.
> 
> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #773: FILE: drivers/dma/sirf-dma.c:649:
> +^I$

Sorry for losing this one.

> 
> 
> Also there are bunch of 80char warning, see if you can reduce/eliminate
> them without sacrificing the code readability, and looking at them it
> seems possible
> 
> Also, Please ensure you send patches which compile with ZERO warnings:
> drivers/dma/sirf-dma.c: In function 'sirfsoc_dma_probe':
> drivers/dma/sirf-dma.c:616: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer
> type
> drivers/dma/sirf-dma.c:617: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer
> type
> which comes from the fact that your prep_interleaved_dma does not have
> last argument of flags.
> On the second one you have not rebased to patch from Jassi which I
> applied after converting direction stuff.

Ok. will do soon and send fix tomorrow. That should be ok to catch 3.2 merge window.
> 
> --
> ~Vinod
> 
-barry


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