Re: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: idma64: Move driver name to the header

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Apr 09 2019 - 14:01:49 EST


On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:37:28AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:02:19PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > There are two drivers that are relying on the iDMA 64-bit driver name
> > to match. Instead of duplicating string in both of them, dedicate
> > a header file and share it between users.
>
> Hmm. Why do we have two separate drivers for the same name?
>
> Something is rather fishy there.

We would like to be sure that the DMA controller driver is loaded before its
consumers.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko