Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:34:08 -0300 | From | Ezequiel Garcia <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma: mv_xor: Use high_base mmio where appropriate |
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:47:20PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > [ adding dmaengine ] > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ezequiel Garcia > <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> wrote: > > Despite requesting two memory resources, called 'base' and 'high_base', the > > driver uses explicitly only the former. The latter is being used implicitly > > by addressing at offset +0x200, which in practice accesses high_base. > > > > Instead of relying in such trick, let's define the registers with the > > offset from high_base, and use high_base explicitly where appropriate. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> > > --- > > drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 3 ++- > > drivers/dma/mv_xor.h | 25 +++++++++++++------------ > > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > Since it's unused I'd prefer a patch that just deletes xor_high_base. >
It's wrongly *unused*, the mmio high_base is actually being used implicitly by always addressing at an offset that addresses +200.
Deleting high_base would actually make it worse, for that region will no longer be ioremaped. Maybe the commit message is not clear about it? -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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