Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:07:56 +0530 | From | Sudip Mukherjee <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: from bus specific dma api to dma api |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:47:25PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:24:46PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > we should be using DMA API rather than using bus specific DMA API. > > Why? >
as given in the DMA-API-HOWTO.txt : the DMA API works with any bus independent of the underlying microprocessor architecture.
> > converted the occurrence of pci_map_*() to dma_map_*(), > > and at the same time used the dma_mapping_error(). > > Trailing whitespace :( > oops .. really sorry . when i checked with checkpatch it didnot show any error. and I did not know that trailing whitespaces should not be there in the commit message also.
> What have you used to test this change?
it has just been build tested , not tested on hardware.
thanks sudip > > thanks, > > greg k-h
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