[PATCH] dmaengine: delete redundant chan_id and chancnt initialization in dma drivers

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 02:26:46 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> client drivers can request a specific chan_id just like it can request a gpio.
> No dear. That's not gonna fly if we are to have common client drivers
> across SoCs.
>
Btw, I meant you can't simply have clients specify a channel number and
get the channel in a portable manner. Clients need to specify the capabilities
they need of the channel.



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