From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andreas Oberritter <obi@saftware.de>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export m8xx_cpm_hostalloc
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:02:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040723140231.GA21814@smtp.west.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1090590567.3939.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:49:27PM +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> to build an i2c driver as a module, m8xx_cpm_hostalloc must be exported.
> We are using a driver which is not in the kernel tree[1]. I tried to
> merge the in-kernel i2c driver with it, but I failed and don't have the
> time to investigate why our driver works with the dbox2 board and the
> in-kernel driver doesn't.
>
> This function has been exported in 2.4. Is it ok to do that for 2.6,
> too?
Must the driver use hostalloc? I didn't think that i2c was called so
early that kmalloc/bootmem_alloc() (or so) couldn't be used.
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-23 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 13:49 [PATCH] export m8xx_cpm_hostalloc Andreas Oberritter
2004-07-23 13:51 ` Andreas Oberritter
2004-07-23 14:02 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2004-07-23 14:41 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-23 14:42 ` Tom Rini
2004-07-23 15:38 ` Matt Porter
2004-07-23 16:27 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-24 13:04 ` Andreas Oberritter
2004-07-24 18:52 ` Matt Porter
[not found] ` <20820601.1090640061250.JavaMail.administrator@RnDserver>
2004-07-24 3:52 ` page fault bharat
2004-07-24 17:16 ` David Woodhouse
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