[PATCH] dmaengine: at_hdmac: add device tree probe
Koul, Vinod
vinod.koul at intel.com
Tue Aug 23 00:55:38 EDT 2011
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 18:33 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> [..]
>
> Grant, Vinod,
>
> Don't you think it would make sense to generalize nr-channels and maybe
> also the capabilities properties for other dmaengine drivers?
> I have seen other dmaengine drivers taking the number of channels from
> platform data so that would make sense.
> It would be new dmaengine device tree properties, but on the other hand,
> I do not know if code can also be centralized for handling of those
> properties... maybe it is better to let drivers deal with them if
> required...
>
We already having this discussion and how to change capabilities etc to
make thing more easy and transparent, See the approaches taken by Jassi
and Linus W
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~Vinod
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