[PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] Add docs for Freescale DMA & DMA channel device tree nodes

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 22 06:19:43 EST 2007


On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Scott Wood wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:14:40PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> +    - compatible        : compatible list, contains 2 entries,  
>> first is
>> +			 "fsl,CHIP-dma", where CHIP is the processor
>> +			 (mpc8540, mpc8540, etc.) and the second is
>> +			 "fsl,eloplus-dma"
>
> So if the DMA register set gets tweaked again, will we have  
> eloplusplus? :-)
> Maybe elo2 would be better.

Seem unlikely for the forseeable future.

> Do we really need completely separate descriptions of the two, or
> can we just describe the difference in the compatible section?

it seemed easier to duplicate and fix.

- k



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