Re: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private data

From	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private data
Date	2015-12-11 15:00 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 06:38:09AM +0000, Wang, Annie wrote:
>> >
>> >Why not DT or ACPI for this?
>> >
>> We choose to use private data, as pl330 already has  struct dma_pl330_platdata.
>> Physically DMA share ACPI device with UART, however, BIOS believes DMA and UART is one device.
>> We can't  get irq share info from ACPI. And we don't use DT.
>>
> That should be then a MFD device

And for me seems like acpi_amba and drivers shall utilize unified
device property API.

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Andy Shevchenko
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Re: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private  data Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2015-12-10 05:10 +0100
  RE: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private  data "Wang, Annie" <Annie.Wang@amd.com> - 2015-12-10 07:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private  data Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2015-12-11 10:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/9] dmaengine: pl330: add new items for pl330 private data Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 15:00 +0100

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