Re: [stable] [patch 44/47] pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 24 2008 - 11:12:01 EST


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:33:34PM +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> Both should be applied together. Although it is unlikely that with the
> broken patch MMC accesses will accidentally clear the DALGN bits of
> other running (unaligned) DMA chains (I'm not aware of any drivers
> using unaligned DMA), the PXA27x developer manual says that this "must
> not" be done. If it would result in memory corruption or lockups, I
> don't know.

Ok, I'll add them both to the .26 queue as well.

thanks for the information,

greg k-h
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