Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nori, Sekhar" <> | Date | Tue, 10 May 2011 18:43:45 +0530 | Subject | RE: [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver |
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 16:24:35, Subhasish Ghosh wrote: > >> > >> >>The driver should probably just get sram > >> >> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the > >> >> platform specific sram allocation function. > >> > >> Are you suggesting that I go back to that implementation. > > > > No, the platform code should use the SRAM allocator and > > pass on the allocated memory to the driver. > > > > Say, if the driver is loaded as a module. > If I allocate the sram in the platform code, how to I > free it when the driver is unloaded.
This is what I said in my last e-mail. What is the issue you see with this approach?
| Thanks for the clarification. In this case, the driver | should use platform callbacks to get/put fast fifo | space. In case this callback is not populated by the | platform or returns an error, the driver should fall | back to allocating from DDR.
Thanks, Sekhar
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