On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:21:44PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:19:37PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I see that following dma engine driver uses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE with ‘type=of’. > >> What does ‘type=of’ mean? How to trigger this driver’s probe and > >> remove to be called? > > > > it means open firmware. This is specfied here by Device tree, so if you have this > > device you need to have the bindings as well. > > I don’t have that device, but I have PLDA’s EZDMA DMA engine on PCIe > interface. It contains two channels, one is to transmit to the device > and another is to receive from the device. > > > > I checked Linux kernel tree but could not find the pre-existing > driver, but I see different DMA engine drivers. So I thought of > playing with the existing closer DMA engine driver. Then you should write and upstream for this device -- ~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
