From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: hancockrwd@gmail.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, flar@allandria.com,
schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de, arnd@arndb.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, takata@linux-m32r.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org,
ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:18:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514091928R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0B5E5A.4090906@gmail.com>
On Wed, 13 May 2009 17:57:14 -0600
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >>> If it doesn't interfere with plain PIO mode, fine.
> >> I agree. There definitely needs to still be support for IDE ports that
> >> don't have DMA capability.
> >
> > There is - it's just if the platform doesn't implement the dma_* APIs you
> > get a problem.
>
> Wouldn't the easiest solution be to just dummy out the DMA API calls on
> this platform to always fail? That would fix these compile problems..
Can libata call dma_supported() per device to decide DMA or PIO mode?
Then, we can solve this problem by add dummy DMA API (just calls BUG)
on such architectures, without Kconfig magic or adding ifdef (like the
old ide stack does), I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 0:20 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-11 22:37 ` [PATCH] mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-13 12:25 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2009-05-11 22:38 ` [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 0:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-12 12:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 13:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 13:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 8:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-12 9:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 9:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-13 3:30 ` Brad Boyer
2009-05-13 3:30 ` Brad Boyer
2009-05-13 4:12 ` Michael Schmitz
2009-05-13 4:12 ` Michael Schmitz
2009-05-13 4:12 ` Michael Schmitz
2009-05-13 4:34 ` Brad Boyer
2009-05-13 4:34 ` Brad Boyer
2009-05-13 8:51 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-13 8:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-05-13 23:57 ` Robert Hancock
2009-05-14 0:18 ` FUJITA Tomonori [this message]
2009-05-15 5:31 ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-15 11:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-15 11:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-15 11:21 ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-15 11:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-17 9:00 ` Robert Hancock
2009-05-17 19:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-17 20:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-17 22:45 ` [PATCH] asm-generic: add a dma-mapping.h file Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-18 6:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-05-18 6:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-05-18 8:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-18 10:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-18 14:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-18 22:44 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-19 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-19 17:01 ` Grant Grundler
2009-05-19 17:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-19 18:08 ` Grant Grundler
2009-05-19 18:08 ` Grant Grundler
2009-05-22 12:12 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-22 14:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-22 14:38 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-22 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-26 4:36 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-26 12:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-27 3:58 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-18 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-18 23:22 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-18 10:45 ` [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-13 10:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-13 10:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-13 10:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:40 ` [PATCH] scsi: libsas " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:50 ` James Bottomley
2009-05-11 22:59 ` James Bottomley
2009-05-11 23:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:43 ` [PATCH] arm: rename CLOCK_TICK_RATE to ARM_TICK_RATE Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 23:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-13 17:11 ` [PATCH] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:50 ` [PATCH] x86: use PIT_TICK_RATE consistently Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 23:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:55 ` [PATCH] move PIT_TICK_RATE to linux/timex.h Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-12 0:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:57 ` [PATCH] mips: use PIT_TICK_RATE in i8253 Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 22:58 ` [PATCH] input: use PIT_TICK_RATE in vt beep ioctl Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 9:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 22:59 ` [PATCH] x86: fix ktermios-termio conversion Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 23:19 ` [PATCH v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 9:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-12 9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 10:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-12 10:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 11:33 ` [PATCH v3] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 11:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 9:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 23:02 ` [PATCH] ipc: use __ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION in ipc/util.h Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 0:19 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-05-11 23:03 ` [PATCH] syscalls.h add the missing sys_pipe2 declaration Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-11 23:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
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