[PATCH 1/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Assign memcpy channels in the driver
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Apr 24 09:45:37 EDT 2013
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
> The channels reserved for memcpy are the same for all currently
> supported platforms. With this in mind, we can ease the platform
> data passing requirement by moving these assignments out from
> platform code and place them directly into the driver.
>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <djbw at fb.com>
> Cc: Per Forlin <per.forlin at stericsson.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
(...)
> -/* Reserved event lines for memcpy only */
> -static int dma40_memcpy_event[] = {
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_0,
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_1,
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_2,
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_3,
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_4,
> - DB8500_DMA_MEMCPY_TX_5,
> -};
(...)
> +/* Reserved event lines for memcpy only. */
> +static int dma40_memcpy_channels[] = { 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 };
So what's so bad with using the #defines?
I would prefer if you took the entire content of
arch/arm/mach-ux500/ste-dma40-db8500.h
and copied into the DMA driver, so you atleast
have a chance of understanding what these numbers
are about.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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