netdev - Re: [PATCH 42/51] DMA-API: usb: musb: use platform_device_register_full() to avoid directly messing with dma masks

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Message-ID: <20130920151552.GQ26101@radagast>
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:15:52 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
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	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 42/51] DMA-API: usb: musb: use
 platform_device_register_full() to avoid directly messing with dma masks

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:11:25AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:14:38AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > Use platform_device_register_full() for those drivers which can, to
> > > avoid messing directly with DMA masks.  This can only be done when
> > > the driver does not need to access the allocated musb platform device
> > > from within its callbacks, which may be called during the musb
> > > device probing.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> > 
> > you want me to carry this one through my tree or you prefer getting my
> > Acked-by ? Either way works for me:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
> > 
> > there's also the third option of me setting up a branch with only this
> > patch and we both merge it, that'd also work.
> 
> I think this patch is sufficiently stand-alone that it should be fine
> if you want to take it through your tree.  That may be better in the
> long run to avoid conflicts with this patch and any future work in
> this area during this cycle.

awesome, i'll take this one early next week.

-- 
balbi

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