From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754749Ab3ADN0L (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:26:11 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:63866 "EHLO mail-ee0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754662Ab3ADN0I (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:26:08 -0500 From: Federico Vaga To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Marek Szyprowski , "'Mauro Carvalho Chehab'" , "'Pawel Osciak'" , "'Hans Verkuil'" , "'Giancarlo Asnaghi'" , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "'Jonathan Corbet'" , sylwester Nawrocki Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] videobuf2-dma-streaming: new videobuf2 memory allocator Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:30:44 +0100 Message-ID: <12929800.xFTBAueAE0@harkonnen> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.4 (Linux/3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64; KDE/4.9.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1399400.izKZgEHXnP@harkonnen> References: <1348484332-8106-1-git-send-email-federico.vaga@gmail.com> <20130101105217.63d7ca9c@redhat.com> <1399400.izKZgEHXnP@harkonnen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 03 January 2013 17:13:14 Federico Vaga wrote: > > After all those discussions, I'm ok on adding this new driver, but please > > add a summary of those discussions at the patch description. As I said, > > the reason why this driver is needed is not obvious. So, it needs to be > > very well described. > > ack. I will ask more information to ST about the board because the > architecture side it is not in the kernel mainline, but it should be. I have more information about DMA on the board that I'm using; probably, I can make dma-contig work with my device. Unfortunately, I cannot test at the moment; I hope to do a test on Monday. -- Federico Vaga