On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Jose Abreu wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently I am using Xilinx VDMA in a FPGA that is connected to a > x64 platform using PCIe. As x64 does not use device tree I needed > to add support for platform data in the Xilinx VDMA driver. Do > you think that this change can be a submittable patch to > mainline? The patch is fairly simple but it was made against the > previous version of the driver that only supports AXI VDMA. I've > seen that support for AXI DMA and AXI CDMA was recently added so > the patch needs to be rebased. > > My main doubt about this being submittable is because I really > don't know how the use of platform data is seen by you guys so I > would really appreciate some feedback about this. Platform data should be okay, but who will initialize that? Shouldn't your device be a ACPI device? Thanks -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
