[PATCH v4 6/7] DMA: sun6i: Add driver for the Allwinner A31 DMA controller

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 06:57:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2014 17:51:56 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > 
> > > Neither "pll6" nor "ahb1_mux" are listed in the DT binding. Also, why
> > > is it the driver's business to set the parent?
> > 
> > Those are global clocks, so it's not really part pof the driver
> > binding itself. But I can add them.
> 
> No better don't then. Can you change the clk_get() call to pass
> NULL as the device pointer to clarify this in the source though?

Ok.
 
> > About the reparenting itself, other devices are actually fine having
> > any parent they want, only the DMA is picky about it (at least, from
> > what we know), so it made sense to me to put it into the driver
> > itself. Where would you put it?
> 
> Maybe Mike Turquette has an idea. We have in the past discussed
> about cases where you want the default clock setting to be part
> of the clock provider in some property. Could that work here?

You mean in the DT? I guess it would yes.

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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