Hi Mark, On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 18:59 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:15:46PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 17:25 +0800, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > That's how a very large proportion of devices that work with DMA are > > > done - why would this be complicated? All can_dma() does is report if > > > DMA is possible. > > > In include/linux/spi/spi.h, it describes if can_dma() exists and returns > > true, dma_tx and dma_rx must be set.But Medaitek SPI controller has its > > own dma hardware, which means this dma resides in the same base address > > range with SPI controller, and only used by SPI, so we don't implement > > generic DMA driver, such that can't provide dma channel and assign to > > dmx_tx, dmx_rx parameter. We think it's strange to implement generic dma > > driver for dma that only used by specific hardware.Can we just provide > > can_dma() function and return false ? But I think it's a little odd that > > there actually has dma. So can we just skip can_dma() function let it be > > NULL ? > > If it's simply the unavailbility of a struct dma_chan we must be able to > get a better solution than just open coding all the DMA mapping and > unmapping in the driver. The only thing we actually use the channel for > is to get the device we need to use to do the mapping and unmapping, > either we need a way for devices to provide their own channels easily or > a way for SPI drivers to specify a device here instead of a channel. > The latter seems easier if a bit clunky (with having to work with both). I list two ways you mention. Pesudo code of your first suggestion: static int mtk_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct dma_chan *tx_chan; struct dma_device *tx_dma; tx_chan = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tx_chan), GFP_KERNEL); tx_dma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tx_dma), GFP_KERNEL); tx_dma->dev = &pdev->dev; tx_chan->device = tx_dma; master->dma_tx = tx_chan; ... } Modification of your second suggestion: --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -539,8 +539,8 @@ static int __spi_map_msg(struct spi_master *master, struct spi_message *msg) if (!master->can_dma) return 0; - tx_dev = master->dma_tx->device->dev; - rx_dev = master->dma_rx->device->dev; + tx_dev = master->dma_tx ? master->dma_tx->device->dev : master->dev; + rx_dev = master->dma_rx ? master->dma_rx->device->dev : master- Is this what you want ? Actually, I don't like first one at all. Eddie Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html