[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: add CPPI 4.1 DMA support
From: Felipe Balbi <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-04 14:06:24
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Hi, (using personal email, left the office) On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 16:06 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
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I think we will get more clarity once we start on this activity.quoted
I agree, but I personally don't see that many limiting factors. dmaengine is just a generic API for doing DMA transfers. If it's not enough for us currently, we extend it.Putting MUSB DMA enignes into drivers/dma/ is the same as taking *any* chip capable of bus-mastering DMA, "separating" its bus mastering related code from its driver and putting this code into drivers/dma/. This doesn't make sense, in my opinion. drivers/dma/ is for the dedicated DMA controllers (which can *optionally* serve the slave devices).
Do I really have to spell it out ? Really ? You don't need to physically move the part of the code to drivers/dma, but it has to use the API. The mentor DMA is internal to MUSB. tusb6010_omap.c isn't. Where it makes sense to move the code under drivers/dma, it will be done, where it doesn't, it won't be done, but it will use the same API. That's all. The end goal is just to drop all these ad-hoc "APIs" for accessing DMA on musb code. -- balbi