From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] of: Add generic device tree DMA helpers
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203182158.10957.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120318204421.759F23E07BF@localhost>
On Sunday 18 March 2012, Grant Likely wrote:
> > struct dma_channel *of_dma_request_channel(struct of_node*, int index,
> > dma_cap_mask_t *mask,
> > void *driver_data)
> > {
> > struct of_phandle_args dma_spec;
> > struct dma_device *device;
> > struct dma_chan *chan = NULL;
> > dma_filter_fn *filter;
> >
> > ret = of_parse_phandle_with_args(np, "dma-request", "#dma-cells",
> > index, &dma_spec);
> >
> > device = dma_find_device(dma_spec->np);
>
> Is dma_find_device() a new function? How does it look up the dma
> device?
Yes, it would be similar to the proposed function in Benoit's patch
> >
> > if (dma_spec->args_count == 0)
> > filter = dma_filter_simple;
> > else
> > filter = device->dma_dt_filter; /* new member */
>
> I'm not thrilled with this if/else hunk; even the case of
> #dma-cells=<0> should provide a hook; even it if is the stock simple
> filter. Leaving filter as NULL is the same as accepting everything
> anyway.
Right, good point. So a dmaengine driver would either register a trivial
filter if it wants to do anything here, or it would just leave it as a NULL
pointer otherwise.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-18 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-27 17:29 [RFC PATCH 1/2] of: Add generic device tree DMA helpers Cousson, Benoit
2012-01-27 18:13 ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-27 20:36 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-01-28 18:12 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-28 18:06 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-31 21:26 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-02 4:52 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-31 23:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-01 10:50 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-02 8:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-02 8:54 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-22 10:59 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-23 10:03 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-23 15:51 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-23 15:57 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-27 13:09 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-27 14:22 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-27 17:28 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-29 14:54 ` [RFC PATCH] of: DMA helpers: manage generic requests specification Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-29 20:54 ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-05 13:14 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-05 18:30 ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-05 19:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-05 10:55 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-05 15:36 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-14 17:47 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-14 18:16 ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-15 8:38 ` [PATCH] of: Add generic device tree DMA helpers Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-15 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-15 9:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-15 10:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-17 9:42 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-17 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-18 9:08 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-15 10:27 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-17 10:47 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-18 9:22 ` Thierry Reding
2012-03-18 15:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-18 18:22 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-19 13:02 ` Mark Brown
2012-03-19 15:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-19 15:07 ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-19 15:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-19 16:54 ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-15 16:30 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-15 19:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-15 20:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-15 21:39 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-15 21:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-16 9:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-20 14:02 ` Matt Porter
2012-03-15 23:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-16 10:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-16 11:19 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-16 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-16 13:28 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-16 13:36 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-17 9:40 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-18 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-18 20:44 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-18 21:58 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-03-18 22:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-19 13:37 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-19 15:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-19 15:58 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-19 13:30 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-19 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-19 15:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-19 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-19 18:06 ` Jassi Brar
2012-03-19 16:31 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-19 17:49 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-03-19 14:45 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-20 14:54 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-20 10:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-20 10:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] of: selftest/dma: Add selftest for new DT DMA request helpers Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-20 14:16 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-20 10:17 ` [PATCH] of: dma/fixup Nicolas Ferre
2012-03-20 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] of: Add generic device tree DMA helpers Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-20 15:38 ` Stephen Warren
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