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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/11] spi/pxa2xx: use the private DMA API only when CONFIG_ARCH_PXA is set
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:36:19AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > The PXA SPI driver uses PXA platform specific private DMA implementation
> > which does not work on non-PXA platforms. In order to use this driver on
> > other platforms we need to move the private DMA implementation into a
> > separate functions that get stubbed out when !CONFIG_ARCH_PXA.
> >
> > While we are there we can kill the dummy DMA bits in pxa2xx_spi.h as they
> > are not needed anymore for CE4100.
> >
> > Once this is done we can add the generic DMA engine support to the driver
> > that allows usage of any DMA controller that implements DMA engine API.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 612 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h | 80 ------
>
> Can you even break this out to its own file?
>
> Like drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pxadma.c/.h
> with stubs in the header file or something so we need
> no #ifdefs in the main driver file?

Good point. I need to refresh the series anyway because of the x86 common
clock changes (which I'm hoping the x86 maintainers accept), so I can do
the file split as well.

> The kernel looks better after this patch anyway, so
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> in any case.

Thanks!


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