Is there a binding for IORESOURCE_DMA population?
Tabi Timur-B04825
B04825 at freescale.com
Mon Jul 18 00:57:44 EST 2011
Shawn Guo wrote:
> I was not part of creating imx-ssi. But I guess that Sascha (Cc-ed)
> might have strong reasons for creating it rather than reusing fsl-ssi.
Not really:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-November/023425.html
Sascha created imx-ssi because he didn't even notice my driver was already
there!
> I really doubt that missing device-tree on ARM platform is the only
> reason resulting two ssi drivers.
Yes, it is! If we had had device tree support on ARM back then, imx-ssi
would never have existed.
> I'm also not a fan of consolidating device driver between fsl mpc and
> imx family, especially I had a try on eSDHC and saw something ugly
> and negative feedback from people.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/7832
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/8202
That feedback would not have stopped me from merging the two. It looks
like some minor concerns that could have been addressed.
> So unless someone initiates the consolidation of fsl-ssi and imx-ssi,
> I will keep going option b). If the consolidation is reasonable and
> possible, it can happen anytime no matter whether device-tree is
> added for imx-ssi or not.
If you try to update the imx-ssi driver to support device trees, you'll
have to convince the ASoC team to override my NAKs.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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