[PATCH] RFC: PL08X DMA driver and signal muxing

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Dec 19 11:21:15 EST 2010


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:39:47AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> +#define DRIVER_NAME	"pl08xdmac"
...
> +static struct amba_driver pl08x_amba_driver = {
> +	.drv.name	= DRIVER_NAME,
> +	.id_table	= pl08x_ids,
> +	.probe		= pl08x_probe,
> +};

Having just enabled this on Versatile Express, this is what I see in
/sys/bus/amba/drivers/:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 aaci-pl041
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 clcd-pl11x
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 kmi-pl050
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 mmci-pl18x
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 pl08xdmac
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 rtc-pl031
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 uart-pl011

Is there a reason why the dmac uses a different naming convention from
all other primecell drivers?  Can it be renamed to "dmac-pl08x" please ?



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