RE: [PATCH v3 1/5] Documentation: DT: vdma: Rename vdma-chan prefix to dma-chan

From: Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 00:03:22 EST


Hi Vinod,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] Documentation: DT: vdma: Rename vdma-chan
> prefix to dma-chan
>
> On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 16:00 -0700, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 22:13:59 +0000, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 23:16 +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > > > On 04/06/2016 06:25 PM, Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao wrote:
> > > > > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
> > > > > > > +++
> > > > > > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.t
> > > > > > > xt
> > > > > > > @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Optional properties:
> > > > > > > {3}, flush s2mm channel
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Required child node properties:
> > > > > > > -- compatible: It should be either "xlnx,axi-vdma-mm2s
> > > > > > > -channel"
> > > > > > > or
> > > > > > > - "xlnx,axi-vdma-s2mm-channel".
> > > > > > > +- compatible: It should be either "xlnx,axi-dma-mm2s
> > > > > > > -channel"
> > > > > > > or
> > > > > > > + "xlnx,axi-dma-s2mm-channel".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This change is not backwards compatible and breaks every user
> > > > > > of the current binding.
> > > > >
> > > > > This commit
> > > > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/slave-
> > > > >
> dma.git/commit/?h=next&id=8e66e7d682b04f7141f8ae666908c8dcd7fc0b
> > > > > fa
> > > > > Renames xilinx_vdma_ prefix to xilinx_dma which includes
> > > > > renaming of the above properties.
> > >
> > > That patch changes driver from vdma to dma. It does not change
> > > property name!
> >
> > It does. Unfortunately there are no line numbers on that website,
> > hence here an excerpt from the commit you mention:
> > @@ -1220,26 +1220,26 @@ static int xilinx_vdma_chan_probe(struct
> > xilinx_vdma_device *xdev,
> > if (!has_dre)
> > xdev->common.copy_align = fls(width - 1);
> >
> > - if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "xlnx,axi-vdma-mm2s
> > -channel")) {
> > + if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "xlnx,axi-dma-mm2s
> > -channel")) {
> > chan->direction = DMA_MEM_TO_DEV;
> > chan->id = 0;
>
> Right, missed that somehow.
>
> Am dropping the patch

Will fix this part and will include this patch in v4 series...

Regards,
Kedar.

>
> --
> ~Vinod