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From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v7] spi: sun4i: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:47:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102174753.elbukxnrc3x27xxc@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161027224712.GY25322@sirena.org.uk>

Hi Mark,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:47:12PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > If the concern from the previous reviews to do with not using DMA is
> > > there some reason it's hard to do DMA?
> 
> > I think just like Alexandru that it is orthogonal. But to really
> > answer, no, it's not difficult. There's just been some fundamental
> > disagreement on whether DMA was supposed to be optional or not that
> > stalled everything I guess.
> 
> Oh, I seem to remember some patches adding DMA support that were doing
> some strange special snowflake thing with ignoring errors now that I
> think about it but that's not this one...  why did nobody ever follow up
> on those?

I have no idea. I think last time we discussed this was last
July. Especially with this in now, there's probably no rush anyway.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26  7:00 [PATCH v7] spi: sun4i: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size Alexandru Gagniuc
2016-10-26  7:00 ` [PATCH] " Alexandru Gagniuc
2016-10-29 18:12   ` Applied "spi: sun4i: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2016-10-26  8:55 ` [PATCH v7] spi: sun4i: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size Maxime Ripard
2016-10-27 11:14   ` Mark Brown
2016-10-27 21:27     ` Maxime Ripard
2016-10-27 22:47       ` Mark Brown
2016-11-02 17:47         ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-10-26 10:07 ` Mark Brown
2016-10-26 16:06   ` Alex Gagniuc
2016-10-26 16:45     ` Mark Brown

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