[PATCH 05/10] dmaengine: sun6i: Move number of pchans/vchans/request to device struct

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Mon Sep 4 00:43:55 PDT 2017


On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 12:40:56AM +0200, Stefan Brüns wrote:
> Preparatory patch: If the same compatible is used for different SoCs which
> have a common register layout, but different number of channels, the
> channel count can no longer be stored in the config. Store it in the
> device structure instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de>

As stated already, we already are going to have a different
compatible, and this is not something that will change from one
instance to the other. Having code is therefore:
  A) Making the code more complex
  B) For no particular reason.

Maxime

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