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From: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/13] mmc: omap_hsmmc: limit max_segs with the EDMA
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:39:55 -0400
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Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:11:08PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 19:47 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:45:29PM +0530, S, Venkatraman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com> wrote:
> > > > The EDMA DMAC has a hardware limitation that prevents supporting
> > > > scatter gather lists with any number of segments. Since the EDMA
> > > > DMA Engine driver sets the maximum segments to 16, we do the
> > > > same.
> > > >
> > > > Note: this can be removed once the DMA Engine API supports an
> > > > API to query the DMAC's segment limitations.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't want to bind the properties of EDMA to omap_hsmmc as this patch
> > > suggests. Why don't we have a max_segs property, which when explicitly specified
> > > in DT, will override the default ?
> > 
> > Why not have a generic way that DMA engine can export these kinds of
> > properties?
> We discussed this at KS. I was of opinion that  DMA engine should export
> controller and channel capabilities as part of the channel it returns.
> 
> Some folks had an opinion that they already know how to use controller
> so may not be very helpful, but if it is going to help (which I think),
> i have a patch for this :)

Anything you can show at this point? ;) I'd be happy to drop the half-hack
for a real API. If not, I'm going to carry that to v2 atm.

-Matt