[PATCH v10] dmaengine: Add MOXA ART DMA engine driver

Jonas Jensen jonas.jensen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 05:53:36 EDT 2013


On 7 October 2013 17:12, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> Sorry I didn't notice this previously, but "moxa" isn't in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt (despite several
> bindings using it). Could you cook up a separate patch to add an entry
> for Moxa, please?

Yes, I'll submit a separate patch.

> Also, given the SoC is called "ART" it's a shame that we're calling this
> "moxa,moxart-dma" rather than "moxa,art-dma". We already have precedent
> for "moxart" in bindings though, so changing that's likely to lead to
> more problems.

Sorry about that, I think the "moxart" contraction was suggested and
has been sticky ever since.

It's at least a little appropriate because the physical chip text
reads "MOXA ART" (photo):

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A-2FXDrObU8/UMcMc_K2vEI/AAAAAAAABwg/ldaLZ7ps1P4/w1331-h998-no/UC-7112-LX-picture4.jpg

Currently three drivers in linux-next use the name with accompanying
device tree bindings.
Considering the amount of patches required, can we keep the name, please?

> Sorry for yet more pendantry, but could we instead have:
>
>  - interrupts: Should contain an interrupt-specifier for the sole
>                interrupt generated by the device.

Fixed in v11.


Regards,
Jonas



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