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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: shmobile: sdhi: pass DMA filter from platform code
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 18:02:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3675801.kLfsmmiSOq@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1305311721160.7395@axis700.grange>

On Friday 31 May 2013 17:30:01 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 31 May 2013 16:52:13 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> > I think it's more a matter of using the API correctly. The dmaengine
> > API is an abstraction to separate the slave driver from the master
> > through well-defined calls. If you make additional assumptions
> > in the slave driver about the master, that is a layering violation.
> 
> I think it is a common practice, see e.g.
> 
> drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c
> drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c

Yes, those should be fixed as well.

> And what do you do for DT-based platforms?

Once the driver is DT-enabled, we no longer have to pass
a filter function at all because the slave id and all settings
will get pulled out of the DT using the dma engine's xlate()
callback.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-31 13:56 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: shmobile: sdhi: pass DMA filter from platform code Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-31 13:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: shmobile: sdhi: remove DMA hardware dependencies Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-31 13:58   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-07 10:22   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-07 12:59     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-07 13:12       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-07 14:53         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-07 15:32           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-07 16:06             ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-19 19:51               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-19 21:51                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-26 10:10                   ` DMA channels (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: shmobile: sdhi: remove DMA hardware dependencies) Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-26 14:35                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-26 15:48                       ` Vinod Koul
2013-05-31 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: shmobile: sdhi: pass DMA filter from platform code Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-05-31 15:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-31 15:30     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-05-31 16:02       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-06-05  8:28         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-07 10:25 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-06-07 12:52   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-07 13:01     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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