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From: "Jan Lübbe" <jlu@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: mvneta: Remove unnecessary DMA ops
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:09:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428682197.7346.122.camel@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55278744.5040304@gmail.com>

On Fr, 2015-04-10 at 10:18 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> However, I do agree that balancing the calls makes sense as long as we
> cannot guarantee that receive buffers are treated read-only and
> transmit buffers write-only.
> 
> So, the NACK is correct, please drop this patch.

Lucas,

do we need some barebox-specific documentation on how to use the DMA API
in network drivers (because RX buffers are not always read-only)? It
seems several people got confused the same way.

Regards,
Jan
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-10  1:01 [PATCH 0/4] Some fixes for PCI, mvneta, xHCI Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] pci: fix device registration for directly attached devices Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  7:15   ` Lucas Stach
2015-04-10  8:24     ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] net: mvneta: Fix transmit errors due to dirty txdesc Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-13  6:43   ` Sascha Hauer
2015-04-10  1:01 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: mvneta: Remove unnecessary DMA ops Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  7:23   ` Lucas Stach
2015-04-10  8:18     ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10 16:09       ` Jan Lübbe [this message]
2015-04-10  1:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] USB: xHCI: Sync non-coherent DMA buffers Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  7:25   ` Lucas Stach
2015-04-13 14:22   ` [PATCH v2] " Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-14 18:52     ` Sascha Hauer
2015-04-14 19:29       ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-15  9:11         ` Lucas Stach
2015-04-15  9:10     ` Lucas Stach
2015-04-15 12:06     ` Sascha Hauer

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