Re: [PATCH 0/3 v3] spi: controller driver for Designware SPI core and PCI interface

[Feng Tang <feng.tang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:27 +0800
Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > > > 
> > > > 0003 is RFC only, as it has dependency over DMA controller
> > > > driver's acceptance to mainline.
> > > 
> > > What is "DMA controller driver"?  Some other patch?  What is the
> > > status of that patch and where is it?
> > > 
> > Yes, it's another driver patch for DMA controller of Moorestown,
> > which is developed by another guy. I don't know if he has submitted
> > the patch to community (I guess not), though we did test the
> > SPIC+DMAC+3G-Modem.
> 
> So am I correct in believing that your "0003: add DMA support" doesn't
> actually work?  That it depends on some other patch which is
> unavailable to testers and reviewers and patch integrators?

Yes, it's fair enough to not trust the 0003 patch and remove it from mm
tree :) That's why I added a [RFC] for it.

Also many thanks for reviewing the patches, they have been not receiving
any comments for a while.

Thanks,
Feng

> 
> Strange.

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