[PATCH 30/32] ARM: ux500: Supply MMC DMA configuration via Device Tree

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Apr 25 08:56:40 EDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> > When requesting a channel, a DMA client needs to pass some pieces of
>> > information such as; request channel, device type, channel type and
>> > direction etc. Normally we do this in the form of platform data, but
>> > when DT is enabled we need to pass it using the driver's bindings
>> > instead.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
>>
>> This requires that the pending MMCI patch get merged *first* right?
>
> No, it doesn't. There is no harm in applying this *before*.
>
> It will just lay dormant until it is.

Ah yeah, right. But the patch stripping out the platform data (no 31) will
wreak havoc if applied before the MMCI patch right?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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