linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for coh901318

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Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:04:21 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for coh901318

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> All platform data has to be made conditional on
> as to avoid cluttering the code with other #ifdef:s.
>

The filter id function assumes that the channel passed in is a
coh901318 which requires that you are in a mach-u300 build and that no
other dma driver will ever appear on this platform.  Which may be
true, but it would be safer to look at
chan->device->dev->platform_data and deduce that it is indeed a
coh901318 channel before de-referencing private fields.  Taken further
if you rewrite the filter_id function in terms of platform_data then
it could live purely in the arch code and not depend on the driver.

...or did you already try this route and hit a snag?

--
Dan
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