On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 02:51:14PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Add support for the Tegra210 Audio DMA (ADMA) controller. This was > > originally distributed as an RFC [0] based upon the existing tegra > > APB-DMA driver. Since then the driver has been significantly > > re-worked to remove a lot of the unused/unnecessary functionality > > that was carried over from the APB-DMA. This version is no longer > > derived from the APB-DMA driver and has been updated to use the > > virt-dma helpers. > > Does this driver make sense to support modular use? I ask because > it inherits the inconsistency of being a bool Kconfig but using some > modular infrastructure from the APB driver. > > Sometime ago when I sent patches to dma/* to "demodularize" other > bools, the general consensus of reviewers/maintainers was that > (to paraphrase) "if it can be modular, it should be modular" -- in > order to keep the multi platform bzImage size as small as can be. > > I did a quick test with it tristate, but that fails as follows: > > ERROR: "pm_clk_add_clk" [drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.ko] undefined! > ERROR: "pm_clk_create" [drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.ko] undefined! > ERROR: "pm_clk_destroy" [drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.ko] undefined! > ERROR: "pm_clk_suspend" [drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.ko] undefined! > ERROR: "pm_clk_resume" [drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.ko] undefined! > > ...since drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c does not currently have any of > those fcns as EXPORT_SYMBOL. Not a show-stopper, but I don't > want to blindly export those fcns if it doesn't make sense. Sure, patch is welcome! -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
