On 19 October 2015 at 15:50, Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:26:38PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote: >> > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 01:25:37PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> > > > Please don't move this into here, it's completely inappropriate. Just >> > > > because something makes use of this does not mean they only support >> > > > 32-bit DMA. Besides, this has nothing to do with whether or not it's >> > > > OF-based or not. >> > > >> > > Understood. My thinking process was that component-based drivers are all >> > > OF-enabled (how else do you make use of the framework?) and 32-bit DMA is >> > > present in 2 out of 3 drivers that are converted, so it looks to be >> > > common >> > > enough that adding it to armada would not hurt. It was all done in the >> > > name of >> > > collecting common code in a single function. >> > >> > Which is an utterly crap reason. >> > >> > It's also not appropriate. I'm really not sure why you think that moving >> > this here would in any way be appropriate - from my point of view, the >> > mere proposal is utterly insane. >> > >> > The "container" device does not do any DMA, so it's inappropriate for >> > it to have DMA masks set or negotiated on it. So, actually, no one >> > should be setting the DMA mask for their container device. It's wrong. >> >> I think (and my opinion doesn't carry as much wheight here on dri-devel >> than intel-gfx) the above is over the top bashing of a new contributor to >> drm who really seems trying to do right. I think that's unecessary, >> especially since you follow up with the reasonable reply below. > > It's justified because it took _two_ messages to get the point across. > The first one asking nicely didn't make the necessary impact. > Unlike Daniel, I carry little to no weight here, yet bashing on people if they don't get things correct the first time is inconsiderable. We are people - we can misread/misinterpret things, have a headache and/or just a bad day. If that makes you angry/annoyed, please don't reply straight away, but give it a few hours/day for the emotions to settle.
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