From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com,
linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] davinci: MMC: Pass number of SG segments as platform data
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:40:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315144037.bf47d74f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268397249-7654-1-git-send-email-sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:04:09 +0530
Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> wrote:
> On some platforms like DM355, the number of EDMA parameter
> slots available for EDMA_SLOT_ANY usage are few. In such cases,
> if MMC/SD uses 16 slots for each instance of MMC controller,
> then the number of slots available for other modules will be
> very few.
>
> By passing the number of EDMA slots to be used in MMC driver
> from platform data, EDMA slots available for other purposes
> can be controlled.
It's unclear what the runtime effects of this change are. I assumed
(without justification) that they're minor and I scheduled the patch for
2.6.35.
If that was the wrong decision then blame the changelog ;)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-12 12:34 [PATCH v2] davinci: MMC: Pass number of SG segments as platform data Sudhakar Rajashekhara
2010-03-12 23:36 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-03-15 21:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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