On Fri, 03 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 03 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> > >> > At this moment in time the memcpy channels which can be used by the D40 > >> > are fixed, as each supported platform in Mainline uses the same ones. > >> > However, platforms do exist which don't follow this convention, so > >> > these will need to be tailored. Fortunately, these platforms will be DT > >> > only, so this change has very little impact on platform data. > >> > > >> > Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@intel.com> > >> > Cc: Dan Williams <d...@fb.com> > >> > Cc: Per Forlin <per.for...@stericsson.com> > >> > Cc: Rabin Vincent <ra...@rab.in> > >> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> > >> > >> Real nice! > >> > >> But can you split this in two patches: one that changes > >> drivers/dma/ste_dma40* and one sequel patch that changes > >> Documentation/* and arch/arm/boot/dts/* so I can merge them > >> out-of-order? > >> > >> I am trying this development cycle to split changes to the > >> device trees and bindings off from the rest of the patches > >> becaused it caused me a mess last cycle. > > > > I was under the impression that the documentation went with the > > bindings, rather than the Device Tree. Am I wrong? > > No you're right. The documentation with the bindings and the > patch to the driver... > > Then just arch/arm/boot/dts/* separately.
I'm confused, that's how it is already: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ste-dma40.txt | 2 ++ drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- include/linux/platform_data/dma-ste-dma40.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Are you getting enough sleep? ;) > The latter is where I have all my trouble and screwup... > > (However when we break the devicetree data out of the kernel > and into its own git we will have to follow the pattern above with > a patch of bindings+DT changes and another one in parallell > changing the kernel, but that is for a more advanced age.) > > Yours, > Linus Walleij -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
