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From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MTD/atmel_nand: Fix support for CPUs that do not
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Le 01/04/2011 14:54, Artem Bityutskiy :
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:26 +0800, Hong Xu wrote:
>> use_dma was always "1" even if the CPU does not support DMA
>>
>> Tested on AT91SAM9261EK by Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
>>
>> Reported-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Hong Xu <hong.xu@atmel.com>
> 
> Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git tree. This looks like a candidate for the
> stable tree - should it be sent there?

Well, definitively the whole series is a candidate for .39-xx (also with
the "[PATCH] MTD: atmel_nand: Fall back to CPU I/O when buffer is in
vmalloc(ed) region" that follows.

But, as DMA access was not included in .38, stable tree should not be
impacted.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre