linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] dmaengine: sun6i: Add driver for the Allwinner A31 DMA controller

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:20:54 +0100
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"andriy.shevchenko@...el.com" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"zhuzhenhua@...winnertech.com" <zhuzhenhua@...winnertech.com>,
	"dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com" <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
	"kevin.z.m.zh@...il.com" <kevin.z.m.zh@...il.com>,
	"sunny@...winnertech.com" <sunny@...winnertech.com>,
	"shuge@...winnertech.com" <shuge@...winnertech.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] dmaengine: sun6i: Add driver for the Allwinner
 A31 DMA controller

Hi Maxime,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 02:20:54PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The Allwinner A31 has a 16 channels DMA controller that it shares with the
> newer A23. Although sharing some similarities with the DMA controller of the
> older Allwinner SoCs, it's significantly different, I don't expect it to be
> possible to share the driver for these two.
>
> The A31 Controller is able to memory-to-memory or memory-to-device transfers on
> the 16 channels in parallel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/Kconfig     |    8 +
>  drivers/dma/Makefile    |    1 +
>  drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c | 1058 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 1067 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c

[...]

> +       sdc->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> +       if (IS_ERR(sdc->clk)) {
> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No clock specified\n");
> +               return PTR_ERR(sdc->clk);
> +       }
> +
> +       mux = clk_get(NULL, "ahb1_mux");
> +       if (IS_ERR(mux)) {
> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Couldn't get AHB1 Mux\n");
> +               return PTR_ERR(mux);
> +       }
> +
> +       pll6 = clk_get(NULL, "pll6");
> +       if (IS_ERR(pll6)) {
> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Couldn't get PLL6\n");
> +               clk_put(mux);
> +               return PTR_ERR(pll6);
> +       }

I'm slightly confused. The binding listed a single unnamed clock (the
AHB clock). What is going on here?

> +       ret = clk_set_parent(mux, pll6);
> +       clk_put(pll6);
> +       clk_put(mux);
> +
> +       if (ret) {
> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Couldn't reparent AHB1 on PLL6\n");
> +               return ret;
> +       }

Why do we need to reparent the mux?

Thanks,
Mark.
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