From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Meet alignment requirements for DMA Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170926.195244.506518182147628099.davem@davemloft.net> References: <71740323.RRBhnhefTi@np-p-burton> <20170926.133309.1916643567158187651.davem@davemloft.net> <1752163.uYYNevmZpH@np-p-burton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: matt.redfearn@imgtec.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alexandre.torgue@st.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, james.hogan@imgtec.com To: paul.burton@imgtec.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1752163.uYYNevmZpH@np-p-burton> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Paul Burton Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:30:33 -0700 > I'd suggest that at a minimum if you're unwilling to obey the API as > described in Documentation/DMA-API.txt then it would be beneficial > if you could propose a change to it such that it works for you, and > perhaps we can extend the API & its documentation to allow your > usage whilst also allowing us to catch broken uses. The networking driver code works fine as is. I also didn't write that ill-advised documentation in the DMA docs, nor the non-merged new MIPS assertion. So I'm trying to figure out on what basis I am required to do anything. Thank you.