Re: [PATCH] DMA: let filter functions of of_dma_simple_xlate possible check of_node

Vinod Koul
2013-08-28T05:37:34Z

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:15:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2013 19:40:57 Vinod Koul wrote:
> > And the selection should be done for the cases where you dont have programmable
> > mux in dmac. For programmable ones passing slave_id in dma_slave_config should
> > be fine.
>
> I think passing a slave_id from the slave driver is never correct with DT,
> since the ID is a property of the system rather than the slave device, so
> the driver has no access to it. Drivers have to always take the settings
> from DT and ignore what dma_slave_config() sets later.
Shouldnt slave id be property of the client driver. That way we can pass it to
the driver using dma_slave_config(). That should make it right..

~Vinod

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