Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:57:00 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Coussno <b-cousson@ti.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>, Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>,
        Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@ti.com>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>,
        Koen Kooi <koen@circuitco.com>, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] pdev: Fix platform device resource linking
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:19:14AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 06:15:27PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:45:42PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > > What would it take to move all this into driver core?
> > 
> > What specifically would you move into there?
> 
> A variable to hold the streaming dma_mask, so that its in struct device
> rather than having to be separate.  Yes, we can keep the pointer in there
> too, because that appears to convey meaning in the kernel today - whether
> the device can do DMA or not.
> 
> A NULL dma_mask pointer already means it can't and dma_set_mask() always
> fails.  A non-NULL dma_mask pointer means the driver can use
> dma_set_mask() to set an appropriate mask.

Ok, that sounds fine to me, for some reason I thought I said yes to this
a long time ago, did no one ever send me a patch for it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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