Re: [PATCHv2] DMAEngine: Let dmac drivers to set chan_id

[Jaswinder Singh]

On 23 July 2011 03:53, Williams, Dan J <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Unless you guaranteed that every id is globally unique I don't see how
> they are generically usable by common clients?
>
Yes. And the first step is to allow DMAC drivers to freely set chan_id value.
Platform could pass the list and mapping of supported 'global channels'
via platform_data(?) which the DMAC drivers could set in chan_id
And I am not sure of defining a new variable for that, because chan_id
is actually used only by some dmac drivers for internal purpose only -
which they could do by private variables.

Proposal to have global cross-platform enum of channel-IDs defined by
client drivers, was to be my next patch.
Though I think, this patch is valid in it's own light.

-j

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