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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] USB: fsl_udc_core: fix build-failure for ARM
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 12:03:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110506100310.GT11574@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110506090449.GA18408@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Hi Russell,

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:04:49AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > I'm unsure about getting rid of the flush_dcache_range. If powerpc needs
> > a flush ARM probably does, too, no?
> > If so, what it the right thing to do? Implement flush_dcache_range for
> > ARM (just wrapping flush_dcache_page?)?
> 
> On ARM, we assume all new pages have dirty dcache, which allows us to
> neatly end the ever-increasing quantity of drivers which need to be
> patched to work on ARM.  PowerPC doesn't do this.
Unless I'm missing something the cache flushed here isn't necessarily
for a new page. (And even if the flush isn't needed here for ARM, not
having flush_dcache_range results in #ifdefs for each user of it. So a
definition would be nice, wouldn't it?)

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110505135029.0c068b8e@wker>
2011-05-06  9:00 ` [PATCH] [RFC] USB: fsl_udc_core: fix build-failure for ARM Uwe Kleine-König
2011-05-06  9:04   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-06 10:03     ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-05-06 18:47       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-11  6:39   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-05-11 15:54     ` Greg KH
2011-05-11 16:29       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-22  7:20         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-06-21  9:32           ` Eric Miao
2011-06-21  9:48             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-21  9:53               ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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