Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add Freescale DMA and DMA channel to Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt file.

From: David Gibson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:25:29 +1000

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:43:35PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > +   l) Freescale DMA
> 
> > +    - compatible : Should be "fsl,dma".
> 
> Please choose some more specific name.  "fsl,mpc8540-dma" would
> be a reasonable choice perhaps.

More precisely, the compatible property should always have an specific
entry based on the exact chip the DMA engine resides in, as well as a
more general entry for any fsl dma engine of this type.

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