[PATCH 1/1] mmc: host: enable OMAP DMA engine support for omap hosts by default

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Jul 18 02:59:51 EDT 2012


* Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org> [120716 23:56]:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Shilimkar, Santosh
> <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> > <javier at dowhile0.org> wrote:
> >> The OMAP MMC and OMAP High Speed MMC hosts now use entirely the DMA
> >> engine API instead of the previous private DMA API implementation.
> >>
> >> So, if the kernel is built with support for any of these hosts but it
> >> doesn't support DMA devices nor OMAP DMA support, it fails when trying
> >> to obtain a DMA channel which leads to the following error on an OMAP3
> >> IGEPv2 Rev.C board (and probably on most OMAP boards with MMC support):
> >>
> >> [    2.199981] omap_hsmmc omap_hsmmc.1: unable to obtain RX DMA engine channel 48
> >> [    2.215087] omap_hsmmc omap_hsmmc.0: unable to obtain RX DMA engine channel 62
> >>
> >> selecting automatically CONFIG_DMADEVICES and CONFIG_DMA_OMAP solves it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org>
> >> ---
> > Considering, we are updating drivers to select the DMA engine, can you
> > also include
> > "drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c" which is also updated for DMA engine.
> >
> > Regards
> > Santosh
> 
> Hi Santosh,
> 
> Ok, I'll send a v2 now which includes spi-omap2-mcspi then.

I don't think we should do this, the drivers should work with and without
dma. This just needs to be added to the omap2plus_defconfig.

Regards,

Tony



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