[PATCH v2 06/12] dmaengine: sun6i: make gate bit in sun8i's DMA engines a common quirk

Vinod Koul
2017-03-14T04:10:13Z

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:37:03PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> Originally we enable a special gate bit when the compatible indicates
> A23/33.
>
> But according to BSP sources and user manuals, more SoCs will need this
> gate bit.
>
> So make it a common quirk configured in the config struct.
>
> The BSP source also indicates that A83T will need this gate bit (there's
> "SUN8IW6" in the #ifdef's), so also enable this gate bit for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.xyz>
> ---
> drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> index a2358780ab2c..889fb24023cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct sun6i_dma_config {
> u32 nr_max_channels;
> u32 nr_max_requests;
> u32 nr_max_vchans;
> + bool gate_needed;

can you please explain what gate means here

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~Vinod