Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Meet alignment requirements for DMA

[David Miller]

From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:30:33 -0700

> I'd suggest that at a minimum if you're unwilling to obey the API as
> described in Documentation/DMA-API.txt then it would be beneficial
> if you could propose a change to it such that it works for you, and
> perhaps we can extend the API & its documentation to allow your
> usage whilst also allowing us to catch broken uses.

The networking driver code works fine as is.

I also didn't write that ill-advised documentation in the DMA docs,
nor the non-merged new MIPS assertion.

So I'm trying to figure out on what basis I am required to do
anything.

Thank you.