Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/8610: add probing for individual DMA channels, not just DMA controllers

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:11:34 -0500

Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
>>  	{ .compatible = "simple-bus", },
>> -	{ .compatible = "gianfar", },
>> +	/* So that the DMA channel nodes can be probed individually: */
>> +	{ .compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma", },
>>  	{}
> 
> The removal of gianfar looks a bit surprising here - if it's not a
> mistake a note in the changelog would be useful.

The changelog says this:

Also remove the "gianfar" compatible from mpc8610_ids[], since there is no
gianfar (or any other networking device) on the 8610.

The 8610 is almost unique among our high-end PowerPC chips in that it
literally has no on-board networking.  The board provides networking via a
PCI device.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale