Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dma: move dw_dmac driver to an own directory

[Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:27:51AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:43:29AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:26:44PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> []
> 
> > Something like
> > config DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO
> >         tristate
> >
> > config DW_DMAC
> >         select DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO
> >
> > I belive DW_DMAC is for AVR support and the PCI ones is different right.
> > The point is that these things should be selected by the required symbols based
> > on what ARCH we are on and not be prompted for user to configure via menuconfig
> 
> DW_DMAC is a generic platform driver which supports AVR32, ARM and
> Intel (ACPI case) platforms.
> 
> We may do that option invisible to user
Yup
> 
> and then use
> 
> config DW_DMAC
>          select DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO if ARCH=AVR32
Thats would be the right way
> 
> I don't know if we will have any platform in future which has such
> difference in endianess between CPU and DMA IP block.
you never know what h/w designers would think!

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~Vinod