[PATCH v3 10/13] OMAP: DMA: Convert DMA library into DMA platform Driver

G, Manjunath Kondaiah manjugk at ti.com
Wed Nov 10 12:23:16 EST 2010



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman at deeprootsystems.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:54 PM
> To: G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; 
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Cousson, Benoit; 
> Shilimkar, Santosh
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/13] OMAP: DMA: Convert DMA library 
> into DMA platform Driver
> 
[...]
> >> > +#define OMAP_DMA4_LOGICAL_DMA_CH_COUNT	32	/* 
> >> REVISIT: Is this 32 + 2? */
> >> > +
> >> 
> >> There are no users of this in this patch, all users are removed.
> >
> > This macro is used in hwmod data base. Do you mean hard coding this
> > value in hwmod db and remove header?
> 
> What I mean is that from a reviewers perspective of this patch, you
> added a new #define that is not used anywhere in this patch.  
> a #define
> should be added along with any users of it.

No. This macro is used in omap2+ hwmod db through plat/dma.h which includes
mach/dma.h

> 
> That being said, the number of channels of the DMA IP sounds like
> something that should indeed be associated with the hwmod as it is a
> fixed HW feature.
If so, I can remove this  macro and hard code in hwmod db.

-Manjunath


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