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Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64

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Hi,

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:14:52AM +0100, André Przywara wrote:
> > And obviously, while maintaining the stability of the binding of those
> > hundreds properties.
> > 
> > Or, you can base all this on the compatible, and be done with it once
> > and for all.
> 
> What I am after is to cover SoCs which *don't* have differences in their
> register layout, for instance A83T, H3, A64, R40.
> In an ideal world we could have reused the H3 compatible string,
> adjusting the number of channels for each SoC in the DT.
> 
> So I see that having a generic compatible name will not fly, as we now
> have differences which should not be modelled by DT properties.
> But I still think we should try to cover those non-register differences
> (number of channels) with a DT property, to allow reusing the existing
> driver code whenever possible. As is stands with this series, the R40
> support should just be a matter of:
> 	compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-dma",
> 		     "allwinner,sun50i-a64-dma";

I just suggested the exact same thing, and then saw your mail, so I
guess we have an agreement :)

Maxime

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[PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: Fix DMA on current allwinner SoCs, add A64 support Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-08-31 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] arm64: allwinner: a64: Add device node for DMA controller Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-08-31 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-08-31 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Code Kipper <codekipper@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 13:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-31 17:00 +0200
      Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for  Allwinner A64 Code Kipper <codekipper@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-01 02:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-09-01 03:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-02 00:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-09-02 02:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-09-02 04:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-04 01:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-01 08:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-02 00:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-04 09:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-04 10:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-08 16:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Add support for Allwinner A64 Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2017-09-08 17:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-08-31 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-08-31 17:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-09-01 05:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-01 15:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Brüns, Stefan <Stefan.Bruens@rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-09-01 16:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: sun6i: Correct DMA support on H3 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-04 09:00 +0200

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