On Wednesday 02 December 2015 12:51:43 Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > On 12/01/2015 04:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 December 2015 15:45:32 Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > >>>> static struct dma_filter_map da830_edma_map[] = { > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.0", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 0)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.0", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 1)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.1", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 2)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.1", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 3)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.2", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 4)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("davinci-mcasp.2", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 5)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("spi_davinci.0", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 14)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("spi_davinci.0", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 15)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("da830-mmc.0", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 16)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("da830-mmc.0", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 17)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("spi_davinci.1", "rx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 18)), > >>>> DMA_FILTER_ENTRY("spi_davinci.1", "tx", EDMA_CTLR_CHAN(0, 19)), > >>> > >>> Does this ".2" and so prevent driver to use auto ID for platform devices? > >> > >> Yes, as all the infra around the traditional board files with platform_device > >> creation does. Ideally we could have 'phandle' pointing from this table to the > >> device in question (or other way around), but I'm not aware of anything we can > >> use. > > > > I was thinking that we could use a pointer to the device structure, but > > if you have that, you can also just read the name from it. > > Hrm to have pdev pointer instead of the devname string? In the core we could > get the pdev from the caller's device with to_platform_device(dev) and simply > compare the pointers... > > One of the issue I see (in mach-davinci and mach-omap1/2) is that the pdevs > are scattered around in the c files so gathering the pointers to a place where > we can see them to be able to use it in the dma_filter_map is not going to be > light weight task. > Furthermore we have the omap_hwmod for OMAP2+ which creates the actual pdevs > and resources from the omap_hwmod data structures so getting out the DMA event > numbers there is not going to be easy either... > > I'll hold back the RFC v3 to see if we should switch to pdev pointer or stay > with the devname strings here. Sorry, what I meant to say above is that I had already concluded that using device pointers was a bad idea and we should stay with names. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html