Re: [PATCH] media i.MX27 camera: remove legacy dma support

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Hi Sascha

(hope, you've had good holidays:-))

Any update on this? Do we want this for 3.2?

Thanks
Guennadi

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> Hi Guennadi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:19:24AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Sure, if it's broken, let's remove it. But there are a couple of points, 
> > that we have to fix in this patch. Sorry, a stupid question: has this been 
> > tested on i.MX27?
> 
> Nope, I currently do not have mainline board support for this driver.
> Could be a good opportunity to add some...
> 
> Your other points are totally valid and I will fix them in the next
> round. Let's first see if someone proves me wrong and says this dma
> support is indeed working.
> 
> > > -	return IRQ_HANDLED;
> > > -}
> > > -#else
> > >  static irqreturn_t mx27_camera_irq(int irq_csi, void *data)
> > >  {
> > >  	return IRQ_NONE;
> > >  }
> > 
> > If this is really all, what's needed for i.MX27 ISR, let's remove it 
> > completely. But maybe you could explain to me, how it is now supposed to 
> > work on i.MX27. In probe() we have
> > 
> > 	irq_handler_t mx2_cam_irq_handler = cpu_is_mx25() ? mx25_camera_irq
> > 		: mx27_camera_irq;
> > 
> > 	...
> > 
> > 	err = request_irq(pcdev->irq_csi, mx2_cam_irq_handler, 0,
> > 			MX2_CAM_DRV_NAME, pcdev);
> > 
> > So, after this patch i.MX27 will always have a dummy camera ISR and just 
> > use EMMA, right?
> 
> Yes, only the EMMA irq is used, we can remove this one.
> 
> > Then maybe we have to make EMMA resource availability 
> > compulsory on those SoCs, and not optional, as now? You'll have to make 
> > emma the only possibility on i.MX27, then pcdev->use_emma will disappear, 
> > locations like
> 
> ok.
> 
> Sascha
> 
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