Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] ARM: dts: provide DMA config to pxamci

Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-16T12:04:06Z

On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 12:58 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Btw. any driver that parses the dmas property manually should be considered
> broken. This is a classical layering violation. The layout of the dma
> specifier is DMA controller specific and should be completely transparent to
> the device driver.

PXA as a whole is broken in this respect at the moment. The problem is
how to move to a "fixed" state without breaking things which work now.