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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] DMA Engine support for AM33XX
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On Friday 11 January 2013, Matt Porter wrote:
> We have tightly coupled the link-time dependency for
> omap_dma_filter_fn by going down the path of using
> dma_request_slave_channel_compat() as Tony suggested to avoid extra
> ifdefry.
> 
> That dependency will go away naturally if all the "legacy" OMAP platforms
> were required to only boot from DT...just as a newly added SoCs are.
> 
> Are you suggesting unwinding the _compat() approach?

No, I was thinking we could define omap_dma_filter_fn to NULL
for the DT-only case.

	Arnd