[PATCH 6/9] serial: tegra: move to generic dma DT binding

Richard Zhao rizhao at nvidia.com
Mon Jul 29 23:31:35 EDT 2013


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 03:39:15AM +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 10:09 PM, Richard Zhao wrote:
> > - driver: remove use of nvidia,dma-request-selector
> > 	  use dma_request_slave_channel to request channel
> > - update binding doc
> 
> This patch needs to be amended so that the DMA channel is looked up
> during probe() rather than open(), to guarantee that deferred probe
> works. It's possible to hold off probe, but not possible AFAIK to hold
> off opening the port.
How about avoid return -EPROBE_DEFER at open() time? It can be in
another patch.

Thanks
Richard



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