On Monday 19 March 2012, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > > This _xlate is nearly useless as a generic API. It solves the problem for > > the specific case where the driver is hard-coded to know which DMA engine > > to talk to, but since the returned data doesn't provide any context, it > > isn't useful if there are multiple DMA controllers to choose from. > > You mean, if there is no DMA controller phandle specified in the > property? I think that it is not the purpose of this API to choose a DMA > controller, Nor to provide a channel. The only purpose of this API is to > give a HW request to be used by a DMA slave driver. This slave should > already have a channel to use and a controller to talk to. I don't think there is consensus on this point. I would expect that the device driver requests the channel with the same operation as passing the request data. Contrast the two ways this is done in atmel-mci.c and mmci.c: ==== atmel ==== /* interface between platform and driver */ struct at_dma_slave { struct device *dma_dev; dma_addr_t tx_reg; dma_addr_t rx_reg; enum at_dma_slave_width reg_width; u32 cfg; u32 ctrla; }; struct mci_dma_data { struct at_dma_slave sdata; }; #define slave_data_ptr(s) (&(s)->sdata) #define find_slave_dev(s) ((s)->sdata.dma_dev) /* in atmel-mci.c */ static bool atmci_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *slave) { struct mci_dma_data *sl = slave; if (sl && find_slave_dev(sl) == chan->device->dev) { chan->private = slave_data_ptr(sl); return true; } else { return false; } } static bool atmci_configure_dma(struct atmel_mci *host) { ... host->dma.chan = dma_request_channel(mask, atmci_filter, pdata->dma_slave); ... } ==== mmci ==== /* in drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c, others in pl330.c, coh901318.c, ... */ bool stedma40_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *data) { struct stedma40_chan_cfg *info = data; struct d40_chan *d40c = container_of(chan, struct d40_chan, chan); int err; err = d40_validate_conf(d40c, info); if (!err) d40c->dma_cfg = *info; d40c->configured = true; return err == 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(stedma40_filter); /* in mmci.h */ struct mmci_platform_data { ... bool (*dma_filter)(struct dma_chan *chan, void *filter_param); void *dma_rx_param; void *dma_tx_param; }; /* in mmci.c */ static void __devinit mmci_dma_setup(struct mmci_host *host) { ... host->dma_rx_channel = dma_request_channel(mask, plat->dma_filter, plat->dma_rx_param); ... } ==== Whatever we come up with obviously needs to work with both drivers. I think we will end up with something closer to the second one, except that the dma parameters do not come from platform_data but from the #dma-request property, which also identifies the controller and channel. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html