[PATCH 1/5 v2] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Allow memcpy channels to be configured from DT

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Fri May 3 07:57:39 EDT 2013


On Fri, 03 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > At this moment in time the memcpy channels which can be used by the D40
> > are fixed, as each supported platform in Mainline uses the same ones.
> > However, platforms do exist which don't follow this convention, so
> > these will need to be tailored. Fortunately, these platforms will be DT
> > only, so this change has very little impact on platform data.
> >
> > Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw at fb.com>
> > Cc: Per Forlin <per.forlin at stericsson.com>
> > Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> 
> Real nice!
> 
> But can you split this in two patches: one that changes
> drivers/dma/ste_dma40* and one sequel patch that changes
> Documentation/* and arch/arm/boot/dts/* so I can merge them
> out-of-order?
> 
> I am trying this development cycle to split changes to the
> device trees and bindings off from the rest of the patches
> becaused it caused me a mess last cycle.

I was under the impression that the documentation went with the
bindings, rather than the Device Tree. Am I wrong?

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Lee Jones
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