From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756193AbYGXPL7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:11:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752374AbYGXPLu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:11:50 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42242 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752033AbYGXPLt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:11:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:05:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: pHilipp Zabel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood , Domenico Andreoli , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Randy Dunlap , Willy Tarreau , Chuck Wolber , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chuck Ebbert , Dave Jones , Jake Edge , Michael Krufky , stable@kernel.org, Rodrigo Rubira Branco , Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 44/47] pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers Message-ID: <20080724150543.GA10549@kroah.com> References: <20080722230208.148102983@mini.kroah.org> <20080722231342.GA8282@suse.de> <20080722231735.GS8282@suse.de> <74d0deb30807230001x176e375cq9a8060c20596f36f@mail.gmail.com> <20080723201258.GA26156@kroah.com> <20080723203250.GA26454@kroah.com> <74d0deb30807240333l565eaf24uf695ce8d01597090@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <74d0deb30807240333l565eaf24uf695ce8d01597090@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:33:34PM +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote: > Both should be applied together. Although it is unlikely that with the > broken patch MMC accesses will accidentally clear the DALGN bits of > other running (unaligned) DMA chains (I'm not aware of any drivers > using unaligned DMA), the PXA27x developer manual says that this "must > not" be done. If it would result in memory corruption or lockups, I > don't know. Ok, I'll add them both to the .26 queue as well. thanks for the information, greg k-h