Re: [PATCH 08/11] dmaengine: xilinx_dpdma: stop using slave_id field

[Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15-11-21, 11:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:14 AM Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 09:54:00AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > @@ -1285,11 +1287,13 @@ static int xilinx_dpdma_config(struct dma_chan *dchan,
> > >       spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
> > >
> > >       /*
> > > -      * Abuse the slave_id to indicate that the channel is part of a video
> > > -      * group.
> > > +      * Abuse the peripheral_config to indicate that the channel is part
> >
> > Is it still an abuse, or is this now the right way to pass custom data
> > to the DMA engine driver ?
> 
> It doesn't make the driver any more portable, but it's now being
> more explicit about it. As far as I can tell, this is the best way
> to pass data that cannot be expressed through the regular interfaces
> in DT and the dmaengine API.
> 
> Ideally there would be a generic way to pass this flag, but I couldn't
> figure out what this is actually doing, or whether there is a better
> way. Maybe Vinod has an idea.
> 
> I'll change s/Abuse/Use/ for the moment until I get a definite answer.

I would feel this is still not use for the peripheral_config, but lets
keep it to get rid of slave_id.

Also, I would be better if this was moved to DT as the next cell, don't
recall why that was not done/feasible.

-- 
~Vinod