On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two types of "struct device": the one representing the
> physical device on its physical bus (platform, SPI, PCI, etc.), and
> the one representing the logical device in its device class (net,
> etc.).
>
> The DMA mapping API expects to receive as argument a "struct device"
> representing the physical device, as the "struct device" contains
> information about the bus that the DMA API needs.
>
> However, the sh_eth driver mistakenly uses the "struct device"
> representing the logical device (embedded in "struct net_device")
> rather than the "struct device" representing the physical device on
> its bus.
>
> This commit fixes that by adjusting all calls to the DMA mapping API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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