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

[Jassi Brar]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/9/22 Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> if the dmac is flexible in design, what you said is right. but the
> problem is that there are some chips which actually fix one channel to
> one peripheral.
Nevertheless it is better to assume the dmac's req-signals could be hacked
to re-route at even runtime.
Also it won't work for client drivers that run the same controller on different
SoC with a different dmac.