On Saturday 03 December 2005 9:10 am, Mark Underwood wrote:
>
> David, how would you feel about adding a NOT_DMAABLE flag in the spi_message structure?
Not good; it'd mean that every controller driver would have to support
both PIO and DMA modes. This minor issue (despite the noise!) isn't
worth making such an intrusive demand on all drivers.
> The other solution is to do a kmalloc for each caller (would could try to be smart and only do
> that if the buffer is being used).
That's far preferable. You could just submit the patch against rc3-mm1
and that'll do the job.
- Dave
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