linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] ARM: tegra: export apb dma readl/writel

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Date:	Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:06:23 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
CC:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] ARM: tegra: export apb dma readl/writel

On 06/05/2014 11:57 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 07:09 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>> Export APB DMA readl and writel. These are needed because we can't access
>> the fuses directly on Tegra20 without potentially causing a system hang.
>> Also have the APB DMA readl and writel return an error in case of a read
>> failure instead of just returning zero or ignore write failures.
> 
>> diff --git a/include/linux/tegra-soc.h b/include/linux/tegra-soc.h
> 
>> +int tegra_apb_readl_using_dma(unsigned long offset, u32 *value);
>> +int tegra_apb_writel_using_dma(u32 value, unsigned long offset);
> 
> Hmm. I wonder why we're exporting those low-level internal functions
> rather than the higher-level tegra_apb_readl()/writel() wrappers that
> "clients" are supposed to be using.

Oh, I suppose this is just for rivers/misc/fuse/tegra/fuse-tegra20.c to
use it, not for arbitrary clients, so this is probably OK.

Any reason not to move all the DMA-related fuse-reading code into
fuse-tegra20.c instead? After this series, is there code left in
arch/arm/mach-tegra which will still need to call into the fuse-reading
code and hence requires tegra_apb_readl_using_dma() to exist?
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