Re: [PATCH/RFC] dmaengine: add a slave parameter to__dma_request_channel()

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 03:28:39PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Yessss!!! Let's do that! :-D Now, you're proposing exactly the same, as 
> what I was proposing! :-) Now you just have to remove the filter function 
> parameter from dma_request_channel() - it is anyway the same for all and 
> implemented in the dmaengine core - and you get
> 
> dma_request_channel(mask, slave_desc)
> 
> which is exactly what I was proposing! :-)

Bollocks it is.  You're wanting to use the peripheral address, width
and burst size to try to determine what channel to use.  That's a
totally crackpot idea, and as I've already said several times it won't
work in many real life cases we have already.
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