Re: [PATCHv2] DMAEngine: Let dmac drivers to set chan_id

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Jul 22 2011 - 11:27:10 EST


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A DMAC driver might put chan_id to better use by directly
> mapping system-wide channel numbers on them (and not DMAC
> relative index).

Sorry, not following this, is the idea that instead of each DMAC
numbering its own channels [0...N] you want to establish a global
channel index number [0..N] that is unique across all DMACs
in the system, even if you have several of them?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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