Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dma: move dw_dmac driver to an own directory

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jun 12 2013 - 04:38:45 EST


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:27:51AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> []
>>
>> > Something like
>> > config DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO
>> > tristate
>> >
>> > config DW_DMAC
>> > select DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO
>> >
>> > I belive DW_DMAC is for AVR support and the PCI ones is different right.
>> > The point is that these things should be selected by the required symbols based
>> > on what ARCH we are on and not be prompted for user to configure via menuconfig
>>
>> DW_DMAC is a generic platform driver which supports AVR32, ARM and
>> Intel (ACPI case) platforms.
>>
>> We may do that option invisible to user
> Yup
>>
>> and then use
>>
>> config DW_DMAC
>> select DW_DMAC_BIG_ENDIAN_IO if ARCH=AVR32
> Thats would be the right way

Do you prefer to have this as separate patch or integrated in the split?
In my humble opinion I better to do separate patch.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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