linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:01:33 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Dan Williams <djbw@...com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>,
	Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@...com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@...sung.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Padmavathi Venna <padma.v@...sung.com>,
	Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@...il.com>,
	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@...onic-design.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA

On Wednesday 19 June 2013, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 of June 2013 18:40:47 Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:54:07PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > > One of the biggest roadblocks on the way of S3C64xx to DeviceTree
> > > support is its DMA driver, which is completely platform-specific and
> > > provides private API (s3c-dma), not even saying that its design is
> > > completely against multiplatform-awareness.
> > 
> > I tried to test this on my s3c64xx based system but it gave me a kernel
> > that didn't boot far enough to give console output (there's some early
> > init stuff that uses SPI...).  That said, I needed:
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
> > index 210a893..0f49707 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
> > @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int pl08x_request_mux(struct pl08x_dma_chan
> > *plchan) int ret;
> > 
> >       if (plchan->mux_use++ == 0 && pd->get_signal) {
> > -             ret = pd->get_signal(plchan->cd);
> > +             ret = (pd->get_signal)(plchan->cd);
> 
> Hmm, that's strange. The former is a completely valid piece of code...

get_signal is a macro defined in include/linux/signal.h. If that header
gets included, neither of the two is valid.

	Arnd
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