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Date:	Sun, 2 May 2010 01:48:34 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus WALLEIJ <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
	STEricsson_nomadik_linux <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] ARM: PrimeCell DMA Interface v5

2010/5/2 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Linus Walleij

>> When the driver issues a request to perform a DMA transfer, it will pull
>> out a physical channel and use that, then return it. If there is too
>> much combat about the physical channels, you configure out DMA
>> for the least wanted PrimeCells.
>>
>
> Could you simulate this by publishing more struct dma_chans than are
> physically present, and then handle the muxing internal to the driver?
>  Or am I misunderstanding the usage model?

Yes exactly that way. What I had in mind atleast.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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