Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/8610: add probing for individual DMA channels, not just DMA controllers

Mark Brown wrote:

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

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{ .compatible = "simple-bus", },

• { .compatible = "gianfar", },

• /* So that the DMA channel nodes can be probed individually: */
• { .compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma", }, {}

The removal of gianfar looks a bit surprising here - if it's not a mistake a note in the changelog would be useful.

The changelog says this:

Also remove the "gianfar" compatible from mpc8610_ids[], since there is no gianfar (or any other networking device) on the 8610.

The 8610 is almost unique among our high-end PowerPC chips in that it literally has no on-board networking. The board provides networking via a PCI device.