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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: wuzhangjin@gmail.com, linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: About MIPS specific dma_mmap_coherent()
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:48:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100511184844.GA7978@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h633uxcje.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:46:13PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> But, I remember vaguely that calling pgprot_noncached()
> unconditionally is dangerous.  It should be checked somehow, e.g. via
> platform_device_is_coherent().  And, this found only in
> dma-coherence.h, and adding it to pcm_native.c would become messy like
> below...
> 
> So, it'd be really better to add dma_mmap_coherent(), indeed.

We agreed that this was only meant as a stop gap meassure.  As such I do
agree with either of

  http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1117/
  http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1118/

Wu has tested the 1117 patch so that might make it preferable especially
for 2.6.34 if we should go for that.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-13  4:58 About MIPS specific dma_mmap_coherent() Wu Zhangjin
2010-04-13 16:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-04-14  4:21   ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-04-14  6:31     ` Takashi Iwai
2010-04-14  9:00       ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-04-14 15:46         ` Takashi Iwai
2010-05-11 18:48           ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2010-05-12  6:42             ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12  8:41             ` Takashi Iwai

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