From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tabi Timur-B04825 Subject: Re: Is there a binding for IORESOURCE_DMA population? Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:27:02 +0000 Message-ID: <4E21ADC5.5010205@freescale.com> References: <20110715163254.GG1840@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <201107161409.46719.arnd@arndb.de> <20110716143456.GA2374@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <201107161719.32543.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201107161719.32543.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Guo Shawn-R65073 , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Why fsl,dma-events? A driver consuming a DMA channel should not > need to care if it's an freescale DMA controller or something else. The SSI, unfortunately, works very closely with the internal mechanics of the DMA device, so it's not possible to completely separate them. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale