From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Timur Tabi" <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, leoli@freescale.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:13:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9c3a7c20809271113n31e00d4ax424a35d9b0836928@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222293567-17694-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> Modify the Freescale Elo / Elo Plus DMA driver so that it can be compiled as
> a module.
>
> The primary change is to stop treating the DMA controller as a bus, and the
> DMA channels as devices on the bus. This is because the Open Firmware (OF)
> kernel code does not allow busses to be removed, so although we can call
> of_platform_bus_probe() to probe the DMA channels, there is no
> of_platform_bus_remove(). Instead, the DMA channels are manually probed,
> similar to what fsl_elbc_nand.c does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Applied to async_tx.git/next.
--
Dan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 21:59 [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 6:54 ` Li Yang
2008-09-25 13:54 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 18:40 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-25 18:47 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 19:00 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-25 19:09 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-27 18:13 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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