[PATCH 1/4] ucc_geth: Change private immrbar_virt_to_phys to generic iopa

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Sat Feb 10 04:26:35 EST 2007


Dan Malek wrote:
> 
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
>> That's what the original code did, kinda.  It called virt_to_phys() if
>> it is main memory, and it called immrbar_virt_to_phys() if it is MURAM.
>>   immrbar_virt_to_phys() did pointer math to extract the physical 
>> address.
> 
> You've got to be kidding.  You created yet another function
> to determine the physical address from a virtual one! LOL!
> Plus, you need logic in the code to first determine which
> one to call?  Everyone is OK with this?

The whole point behind the patch that we posted a couple days ago is to get rid 
of this function.  The patch replaced it with a call to iopa(), but Kumar nack'd 
that.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale



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