[PATCH 1/1] dt: Add general DMA window parser

Hiroshi Doyu hdoyu at nvidia.com
Thu Apr 19 08:32:48 EDT 2012


On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:39:45 +0200
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:

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> * Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 04/18/2012 04:19 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > 
> > > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] dt: Add general DMA window parser
> > > 
> > > This code was stolen from:
> > > 	"arch/microblaze/kernel/prom_parse.c"
> > > 	"arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c"
> > > 
> > > Once "ibm," prefix is removed from dts file. This generic one could
> > > replace the originals.
> > 
> > > +extern void of_parse_dma_window(struct device_node *dn,
> > > +		       const void *dma_window_prop, unsigned long *busno,
> > > +			       unsigned long *phys, unsigned long *size);
> > 
> > At least some other of_*() parsing functions take the property name
> > rather than the property pointer, and also take an index into the
> > property in order to support multiple entries in it. See for example
> > of_parse_phandle and of_get_named_gpio_flags. Should this new API be
> > similar? E.g.:
> > 
> > extern void of_parse_dma_window(struct device_node *np,
> > 			const char *propname, int index,
> > 			unsigned long *busno,
> > 			unsigned long *phys, unsigned long *size);
> 
> In that case the function should return int for proper error handling.

Good point. I'll.



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