Re: dma_ops->map_page == NULL

["Kári Davíðsson" <kari.davidsson@marel.com>]

Yes the device pointer was invalid.

I was passing the of_device pointer instead of
the address of of_device->dev.

But I am sure this was working (passing of_device pointer) with
earlier kernels.

Thanks for the help.

rg
kd

Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:15 +1000, Mark Nelson wrote:
>>> When the 32 and 64bit DMA code was merged in .28 , map_/ 
>>> unmap_page() was
>>> added in favour of map_/unmap_single() (which was later removed in . 
>>> 29)
>>> so you'll have to replace your calls to dma_map_single() with
>>> dma_map_page(). Just pass it the page and offset rather than the  
>>> address.
>> Wait a minute ... dma_map_single() should still work, it will just  
>> call
>> dma_map_page() underneath. All dma_ops should have a ->map page
>> callback.
>>
>> Do you have any dma_ops set for your device at all ? I wonder how we
>> set the dma_ops for platform devices nowadays ... We use to have this
>> fallback to direct ops when the dma_ops are NULL but that is gone and
>> I see no suitable replacement to set them on platform devices for
>> embedded archs ... oops...
>>
>> Kumar, Becky, what's the situation there ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben.
> 
> Is it possible the dev pointer is not valid?  I can't remember if that  
> was a .29 or .30 change that requires us to start passing a valid dev  
> pointer to get the proper dma_ops.
> 
> - k