Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: TXx9 Soc DMA Controller driver

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:29:20 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately, not so simple.  If I created a dma_device for each
> channel, all chan->chan_id will be 0 and all chan->device->dev points
> same platform device.  This makes client driver hard to select the
> particular channel.  Making a platform device for each channel will
> solve this, but it looks wrong way to go for me.

Why?  mv_xor, iop-adma, and ioat each have a platform or pci device
per channel so you would be in good company.
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