[PATCH v2 1/3] dmaengine: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC DMA engine driver

Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-14T11:54:25Z

On Wednesday 14 January 2015 14:56:33 Rameshwar Sahu wrote:
>
> > Also add the correct dma-ranges property in the parent, or else this will
> > fail in the future once we add proper checks to dma_set_mask.
>
> I see arch/arm64 kernel doesn't use dma range value parsed from
> dma-range property currently, I will check it more.
> It doesn't use dma_pfn_offset value calculated by the dma-ranges in
> dma mapping API.
> dma-ranges value should test properly before adding.
> Is there any use to add this dma-ranges properly if arch code doesn't support ??

Of course: the dt needs to describe the hardware correctly. This is
just a bug in the current arm64 code and it will soon be fixed.

Arnd