From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khil...@deeprootsystems.com]:
> What platforms was this tested on?
dm365_evm
>
> This looks like a fix that should be queued for 2.6.34-rc, but would
> be helpful to have a review/ack from Sandeep on this.
>
> Also, this fix needs to go upstream through the SPI maintai
From: Nori, Sekhar [mailto:nsek...@ti.com]:
> Okay. Sorry, but I have not seen any platforms doing this as well.
> (of course, it doesn't help that I am familiar only with DaVinci).
>
> Can you quote some example platform where this is being done?
See arch/mips/basler/excite, where I implemented
From: Nori, Sekhar [mailto:nsek...@ti.com]
> I haven't seen any in-kernel driver where DMA and IRQ resources
> are reserved using linux/ioport.h. Can you point to any such code?
No, of course not. My very point was that drivers are not supposed to
do resource management, this is a responsibility
From: Nori, Sekhar [mailto:nsek...@ti.com]
> IRQ resources are managed by request_irq(). EDMA does its own resource
> management, but ideally should be using drivers/dma/ resource manager.
This is not the kind of resource management I am talking about. You could
call request_irq() with any bogus
Hi Kevin,
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/board_dm365_evm_resources.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> > +#ifndef _DAVINCI_EVM_RESOURCES_H
> > +#define _DAVINCI_EVM_RESOURCES_H
> > +
> > +#include
> > +#include
> > +
> > +/* IRQs */
> > +#define IRQ_SPI0 IRQ_DM365_SPIINT0_0
>
Hi Kevin,
>
> Actually, the driver is the place where the resources are used and
> therefore where they should be reserved and released. This patch
> removes this from the drivers and puts it in SoC code which I don't
> like.
>
> There are really two main things going on here that I see:
>
> 1
Hi,
being in the early stages of porting the kernel to a new DaVinci-based platform,
I found that there are two git repositories specifically targeted at DaVinci
development,
namely the one at arago-project.org/git/projects/linux-davinci.git, and another
one
which is at git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li
