From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
spear-devel <spear-devel@list.st.com>,
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 5/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: add PCI part of the driver
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:43:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348739022.13371.157.camel@smile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348735450.1648.5.camel@vkoul-udesk3>
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 14:14 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > +static int __devinit dw_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> > + const struct pci_device_id *id)
> > +{
> ...
> > +
> > + pd = platform_device_alloc("dw_dmac", instance);
> Why can't the core driver library be agnostic. Why do we care if the
> device is platform, pci or something else.
> There is nothing in dma API callbacks which driver implements that
> warrants it to be some device.
>
> You have already taken care of dma controller accesses be arch
> independent so I don't see a reason why this should be done?
I'm afraid I didn't get you comment.
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 7:31 [PATCHv3 0/7] dw_dmac: split the driver and introduce PCI part Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:31 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: use helper macro module_platform_driver() Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:16 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:16 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-10-01 10:47 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-01 13:05 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 7:31 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: add module alias Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 8:16 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:16 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 7:31 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: remove CLK dependency Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:42 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 8:02 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:17 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:17 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 7:31 ` [PATCHv3 4/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: amend description and indentation Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:45 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:19 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:31 ` [PATCHv3 5/7] dmaengine: dw_dmac: add PCI part of the driver Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:49 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 8:09 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:44 ` Vinod Koul
2012-09-27 9:43 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2012-09-27 10:01 ` Vinod Koul
2012-09-27 10:11 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 10:32 ` Vinod Koul
2012-10-03 13:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-08 10:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-08 10:49 ` Viresh Kumar
2012-10-08 12:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-08 13:27 ` Viresh Kumar
2012-10-24 11:13 ` Vinod Koul
2012-10-30 15:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-30 15:19 ` Viresh Kumar
2012-10-30 15:39 ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:32 ` [PATCHv3 6/7] dma: move dw_dmac driver to an own directory Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:50 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:22 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 7:32 ` [PATCHv3 7/7] MAINTAINERS: add recently created files to dw_dmac section Andy Shevchenko
2012-09-27 7:51 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-27 8:12 ` viresh kumar
2012-09-27 8:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
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