[PATCH V6 2/2] dmaengine: add helper function to request a slave DMA channel
Vinod Koul
vinod.koul at linux.intel.com
Sun Sep 16 23:33:25 EDT 2012
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 17:41 -0500, Jon Hunter wrote:
> +/**
> + * dma_request_slave_channel - try to allocate an exclusive slave
> channel
> + * @dev: pointer to client device structure
> + * @name: slave channel name
> + */
> +struct dma_chan *dma_request_slave_channel(struct device *dev, char *name)
> +{
> + /* If device-tree is present get slave info from here */
> + if (dev->of_node)
> + return of_dma_request_slave_channel(dev->of_node, name);
> +
Shouldn't this be conditionally compiled only when OF is built. I think
this might be problematic for systems which doesn't have device tree.
Or perhaps you can declare these symbols as dummy in of_dma.h when
device tree is not selected.
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_request_slave_channel);
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~Vinod
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