On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 16:13:51, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 March 2013, Manjunathappa, Prakash wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 18:56:09, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 March 2013, Manjunathappa, Prakash wrote: > > > > Adds device tree support for davinci_mmc. Also add binding documentation. > > > > As of now in non-dma PIO mode and without GPIO card_detect/write_protect > > > > option because of dependencies on EDMA and GPIO module DT support. > > > > > > Shouldn't the binding at least specify the names for the DMA channels? > > > It's fine if the driver works without those, but I think there is no > > > strict dependency here: If dma_request_slave_channel does not find > > > a channel, the driver can just continue in PIO mode, and as soon > > > as the EDMA driver is merged, it will work with DMA. > > > > In that case, don't I have to add support for it in driver also using > > dma_request_slave_channel_compat? As we do not have edma support yet on > > da850, I will not be able to test it. > > The code is independent of the binding in this case. If you already know > that the hardware supports DMA channels and you will add support in the > code later, I would recommend writing up the binding the way it should > be used. > Ok I will add support for DMA bindings with a note saying "not tested dma capability via DT". Thanks, Prakash -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
