Re: [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module

Dan Williams
2008-09-27T18:13:29Z

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.

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Dan