netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: smc91x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:00:37 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	robert.jarzmik@...e.fr, nico@...xnic.net, arnd@...db.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: smc91x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 01:37:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:41:54 +0200
> 
> > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:
> > 
> >> From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
> >> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:26:04 +0200
> >>
> >>> Convert the dma transfers to be dmaengine based, now pxa has a dmaengine
> >>> slave driver. This makes this driver a bit more PXA agnostic.
> >>> 
> >>> The driver was tested on pxa27x (mainstone) and pxa310 (zylonite),
> >>> ie. only pxa platforms.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
> >>> Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> >>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> >>> ---
> >>> This has potential to break other platform such as Neponset, Idp,
> >>> halibut and qsd8x50, so I added Russell and Arnd as they were discussing
> >>> smc91x support last February.
> >>
> > 
> >> Is someone testing whether such platforms break or not?  I'm waiting for
> >> that before I consider applying this patch.
> > 
> > My understanding is that Russell is the only one left testing them, or at least
> > he was the only one complaining about a breakage lately on neponset.
> > 
> > I can wait several weeks for Russell to have a bit of time to try : I know it
> > will compile correctly at least for neponset, and I know almost all the code is
> > under #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_PXA. And still I would feel far more comfortable if it
> > was tested, just as you.
> 
> Oh well, I've waited long enough.... patch applied, thanks.

Well, I'm unlikely to get around to testing on the neponset any time
in the next month, and I don't think there's much that would go wrong
as a result of these changes: neponset doesn't use any of this DMA
code.

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