[PATCH v3 2/2] fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jun 25 05:13:00 EST 2009


On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

> Dan Williams wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>> Kumar, Leo,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I get your acked-by's for the current state of async_tx.git/  
>>>>> next?  I
>>>>> just pushed out Ira's latest so it may take a moment to mirror  
>>>>> out.
>>>> Acked-by: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
>>>>
>>>> However, the addition of arch/powerpc/include/asm/fsldma.h still  
>>>> needs
>>>> the ack from Kumar.  It doesn't seem to be a common practice  
>>>> though.
>>> hmm, why are we moving fsldma.h?
>> There are now two fsldma.h files.
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.h: no changes, houses the private driver  
>> implementation details.
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/fsldma.h: adds some helper routines and  
>> definitions for the DMA_SLAVE capability of the driver.  It defines  
>> an interface for other drivers to use fsldma to initiate device-to- 
>> memory dma.  Any drivers that use the interface will depend on  
>> CONFIG_FSL_DMA hence placing this public header under arch/powerpc/ 
>> include.
>
> Kumar?  Shall we push this decision off to 2.6.32, I would prefer  
> not to as Ira had his initial patches available before the merge  
> window opened?
>
> Ira, aside from the pci read multiple patch are there any others  
> that are suitable for 2.6.31 if the dma_slave implementation gets  
> held back?

Lets go ahead w/2.6.31 (if its ok w/you).

- k


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