[PATCH v2] serial: pl011: Add Device Tree support to request DMA channels

[Lee Jones]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:14:16AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > @@ -269,7 +270,10 @@ static void pl011_dma_probe_initcall(struct uart_amba_port *uap)
> >  	dma_cap_zero(mask);
> >  	dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, mask);
> >  
> > -	chan = dma_request_channel(mask, plat->dma_filter, plat->dma_tx_param);
> > +	chan = dma_request_slave_channel_compat(mask,
> > +				(plat) ? plat->dma_filter : NULL,
> > +				(plat) ? plat->dma_tx_param : NULL,
> > +				uap->port.dev, "tx");
> >  	if (!chan) {
> >  		dev_err(uap->port.dev, "no TX DMA channel!\n");
> >  		return;
> 
> This suffers the same problem with your MMCI patch.  If you're using DT and
> don't provide the DMA information, you get errors printed.  That's not on
> for an optional driver feature, especially when that feature causes
> functional difficulties on various platforms and so is _purposely_ omitted.

How does that differ from using pdata and not passing DMA information?

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Lee Jones
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