[PATCH 1/5] ARM: ux500: Move DMA40 platform data includes file out to include/
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue Apr 9 05:35:11 EDT 2013
On Tuesday 09 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > On Monday 08 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > The pin names for DB8500 based platforms need to be moved out of
> > > ux500 platform data and into the new proper location in include/
> > > linux/platform_data/. This way we an reference them from other
> > > external locations, such as the main DMA50 driver(s).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> >
> > Hmm, not sure about this one. The slave numbers are not really platform_data
> > and I think they should not be exposed to drivers. It makes sense to
> > keep the numbers for the memcpy channels in the driver itself as they
> > are hardwired in the driver, but the slave channels should stay in the
> > platform I think.
>
> Just looking at this again now. So you're right in that the main
> reason for moving these out of platform code and into the system-wide
> platform data area is for the memcpy channels. However, I'd prefer to
> keep the channel allocation enum fully contiguous rather than
> splitting them out.
>
> The channels are only exposed to the one external driver which
> includes them, and that's the D40 driver.
>
> How against this move are you?
I think it's a move in the wrong direction. If you think we should keep the
knowledge of which channels are used for memcpy outside of the driver,
I would prefer you to drop the the first two patches, which implies that
we will eventually pass that information using DT properties in order get
rid of the auxdata.
Arnd
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