RE: [PATCH] fsl/fman: add dependency on HAS_DMA

[Madalin-cristian Bucur]

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> On Behalf Of Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 7:17 PM
> To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>;
> netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linuxppc-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: add dependency on HAS_DMA
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> A previous commit inserted a dependency on DMA API that requires
> >> HAS_DMA to be added in Kconfig.
> >
> > It would be nice to specify the commit that caused this.
> 
> That would be commit 5567e989198b5a8d ("fsl/fman: propagate dma_ops").
> 
> However, none of the fman code uses any DMA API calls, so IMHO
> the set_dma_ops() should be done somewhere else.

The Ethernet driver is making use of the DMA ops set here.

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> 
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