On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:54:34PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:20:32AM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > The patch tries to implement a solution suggested by Russell King, > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-December/035264.html. > > It is expected to solve video buffer allocation issues for at least a > > few soc_camera I/O memory less host interface drivers, designed around > > the videobuf_dma_contig layer, which allocates video buffers using > > dma_alloc_coherent(). > > > > Created against linux-2.6.37-rc5. > > > > Tested on ARM OMAP1 based Amstrad Delta with a WIP OMAP1 camera patch, > > patterned upon two mach-mx3 machine types which already try to use the > > dma_declare_coherent_memory() method for reserving a region of system > > RAM preallocated with another dma_alloc_coherent(). Compile tested for > > all modified files except arch/sh/drivers/pci/fixups-dreamcast.c. > > > > Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > I intended to quote Russell in my commit message and even asked him for > > his permission, but since he didn't respond, I decided to include a link > > to his original message only. > > There's no problem quoting messages which were sent to public mailing > lists, especially when there's a record of what was said in public > archives too. > > I think this is definitely a step forward. > The -tip folks have started using LKML-Reference tags to help with this, although I don't believe its usage is officially documented anywhere. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
