Re: [RFC PATCH v3 11/16] mmc: omap_hsmmc: limit max_segs with theEDMA DMAC

From: Sekhar Nori
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 04:19:38 EST


On 10/18/2012 6:56 PM, Matt Porter wrote:
> The EDMA DMAC has a hardware limitation that prevents supporting
> scatter gather lists with any number of segments. Since the EDMA
> DMA Engine driver sets the maximum segments to 16, we do the
> same.
>
> TODO: this will be replaced once the DMA Engine API supports an
> API to query the DMAC's segment size limit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c
> index b327cd0..52bab01 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c
> @@ -1828,6 +1828,16 @@ static int __devinit omap_hsmmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> * as we want. */
> mmc->max_segs = 1024;
>
> + /* Eventually we should get our max_segs limitation for EDMA by
> + * querying the dmaengine API */

Nit picking: This is not as per multi-line comment style in
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Thanks,
Sekhar
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