On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:57:07PM +0100, Fabien Parent wrote:

> This commit updates the davinci SPI driver in order to use the SPI
> framework to handle the DMA mapping of buffers coming from an upper
> layer.

This claims to be using the framework to do DMA mapping but...

> +		if (!t->rx_buf) {
> +			sg_init_table(&sg_rx, 1);
> +			t->rx_dma = dma_map_single(&spi->dev, dummy_buf,
> +					t->len, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> +			if (dma_mapping_error(&spi->dev, !t->rx_dma)) {
> +				ret = -EFAULT;
> +				goto err_rx_map;
> +			}
> +			sg_dma_address(&sg_rx) = t->rx_dma;
> +			sg_dma_len(&sg_rx) = t->len;

...adds code that does DMA mapping.  That's confusing?