On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:19:14AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 06:15:27PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:45:42PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > > What would it take to move all this into driver core? > > > > What specifically would you move into there? > > A variable to hold the streaming dma_mask, so that its in struct device > rather than having to be separate. Yes, we can keep the pointer in there > too, because that appears to convey meaning in the kernel today - whether > the device can do DMA or not. > > A NULL dma_mask pointer already means it can't and dma_set_mask() always > fails. A non-NULL dma_mask pointer means the driver can use > dma_set_mask() to set an appropriate mask. Ok, that sounds fine to me, for some reason I thought I said yes to this a long time ago, did no one ever send me a patch for it? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
