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From: gregory.clement@free-electrons•com (Gregory CLEMENT)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V3 1/3] arm: dma mapping: Export dma ops functions
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:17:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AC8E16.3020006@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AC8D09.6050104@samsung.com>

On 11/21/2012 09:12 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 11/21/2012 9:05 AM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On 11/21/2012 08:06 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> On 11/20/2012 10:56 PM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>>> Expose the DMA operations functions. Until now only the dma_ops
>>>> structs in a whole or some dma operation were exposed. This patch
>>>> exposes all the dma coherents operations. They can be reused when an
>>>> architecture or a driver need to create its own set of dma_operation.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons•com>
>>>
>>> Besides arm_dma_set_mask() function I see no reason to export the other
>>> arm dma related functions.
>>
>> The idea was to let other people use the arm dma related functions,
>> for their own dma ops. But for the mvebu machines we only need
>> arm_dma_set_mask() indeed.
>>
>> So you prefer that I only expose arm_dma_set_mask() and let future
>> user expose other function if they need it, right?
> 
> I would prefer to avoid exporting functions which are not used anywhere
> else. This improves readability of the code and simply forces others to
> think twice before they use some static function and check if their use
> case is really correct.

OK so I will send a new version in a few minutes.

Do  you think these last changes will be enough for getting your Acked-by?

Thanks,
Greogry

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-20 21:56 [PATCH V3 0/3] Add hardware I/O coherency support for Armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2012-11-20 21:56 ` [PATCH V3 1/3] arm: dma mapping: Export dma ops functions Gregory CLEMENT
2012-11-21  7:06   ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-21  8:05     ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-11-21  8:12       ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-21  8:17         ` Gregory CLEMENT [this message]
2012-11-21  8:35           ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-20 21:56 ` [PATCH V3 2/3] arm: plat-orion: Add coherency attribute when setup mbus target Gregory CLEMENT
2012-11-20 21:56 ` [PATCH V3 3/3] arm: mvebu: Add hardware I/O Coherency support Gregory CLEMENT

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