Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] scsi/ncr5380: Use correct types for DMA routines

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:46:53AM -0400, Finn Thain wrote:
> Apply prototypes to get consistent function signatures for the DMA
> functions implemented in the board-specific drivers. To avoid using
> macros to alter actual parameters, some of those functions are reworked
> slightly.
> 
> This is a step toward the goal of passing the board-specific routines
> to the core driver using an ops struct (as in a platform driver or
> library module).
> 
> This also helps fix some inconsistent types: where the core driver uses
> ints (cmd->SCp.this_residual and hostdata->dma_len) for keeping track of
> transfers, certain board-specific routines used unsigned long.
> 
> While we are fixing these function signatures, pass the hostdata pointer
> to DMA routines instead of a Scsi_Host pointer, for shorter and faster
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/arm/cumana_1.c | 26 ++++++++++------
>  drivers/scsi/arm/oak.c      | 13 ++++----

For these two,

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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