Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: mfd: atmel-usart: add DMA bindings for SPI mode

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 21/11/2018 14:52:29-0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:48 AM Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On 21/11/2018 10:41:01-0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > +Optional properties in serial and SPI mode:
> > > > +- dma bindings for dma transfer:
> > > > +       - dmas: DMA specifier, consisting of a phandle to DMA controller node,
> > > > +               memory peripheral interface and USART DMA channel ID, FIFO configuration.
> > > > +               Refer to dma.txt and atmel-dma.txt for details.
> > > > +       - dma-names: "rx" for RX channel, "tx" for TX channel.
> > >
> > > > +               dma-names = "tx", "rx";
> > >
> > > The dma-names should have a defined order.
> > >
> >
> > Why is that? Isn't the purpose of names to get rid of any particular
> > ordering?
> 
> Because a fundamental rule of DT is the order is defined and
> important. The purpose was to allow for cases that had a variable
> number of entries, but even a variable number still have a defined
> order.
> 

Thank you for the clarification!


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