linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sh: use dma_to_phys() instead of dev->dma_pfn

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Message-ID: <453a9a954f4967a68a7023c8c79a39fdcb69254a.camel@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:05:52 +0200
From:   Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: use dma_to_phys() instead of dev->dma_pfn_offset

On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 00:43 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 06:51:29PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > It's more explicit and lets dma-direct handle the specifics of how to
> > translate addresses.
> > 
> > On top of that get rid of warnings as, since the introduction of commit
> > 6fa1d28e38c ("sh: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops"), it's impossible for
> > the dev to be NULL.
> 
> This looks ok, but the real answer is to switch sh to the generic
> dma remapping code.  I've been trying to get this included for about
> a year now, but never managed to get a reply from the sh maintainers.

I see, well I guess this one will get ignored too :)

> Here is the last one:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/sh-dma-remap

I'd be happy with your series too.

In case you're wondering why I want this: I'm interested in supporting multiple
dma-ranges in DT. So I was looking at the amount of work needed to centralize
usage of dev->dma_pfn_offset. This one patch seemed trivial enough to send
right away.

Regards,
Nicolas


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