Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma: mv_xor: Use high_base mmio where appropriate

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Oct 28 2013 - 19:47:34 EST


[ adding dmaengine ]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Despite requesting two memory resources, called 'base' and 'high_base', the
> driver uses explicitly only the former. The latter is being used implicitly
> by addressing at offset +0x200, which in practice accesses high_base.
>
> Instead of relying in such trick, let's define the registers with the
> offset from high_base, and use high_base explicitly where appropriate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 3 ++-
> drivers/dma/mv_xor.h | 25 +++++++++++++------------
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Since it's unused I'd prefer a patch that just deletes xor_high_base.

--
Dan
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