Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

[Sanjay R Mehta]

On 6/16/2021 9:45 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
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> On 15-06-21, 16:50, Sanjay R Mehta wrote:
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>>>> +static struct pt_device *pt_alloc_struct(struct device *dev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     struct pt_device *pt;
>>>> +
>>>> +     pt = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pt), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +
>>>> +     if (!pt)
>>>> +             return NULL;
>>>> +     pt->dev = dev;
>>>> +     pt->ord = atomic_inc_return(&pt_ordinal);
>>>
>>> What is the use of this number?
>>>
>>
>> There are eight similar instances of this DMA engine on AMD SOC.
>> It is to differentiate each of these instances.
> 
> Are they individual device objects?
> 

Yes, they are individual device objects.

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