Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:24:08 +0530 | From | Vinod Koul <> | Subject | Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: sun6i: make gate bit in sun8i's DMA engines a common quirk |
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:04:39AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:15:29PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote: > > > SoC info is in compatible, so there's no reason to make it a property. > > > > that's why it would need to be optional for the SoC's that needs these.. > > There's nothing optional about that behaviour, it's mandatory for the > SoC that need it, and useless on the SoC that don't.
And why should kernel put strings for each hw behaviour. I am expecting DT to tell me if this SoC is a special case or not and kernel shall handle accordingly
> Plus, that would require changing the DT binding, which isn't > something we can do.
Any reason why bindings can't change..? I though this was support for new SoC...
-- ~Vinod
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