Re: [PATCH v2] pasemi_dma: Driver for PA Semi PWRficient on-chipDMA engine

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 20:20:27 EST


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:46:39AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Looks good, makes me want to go back and cleanup iop-adma a bit. A
> few fyi's below, but no other review comments.
>
> > Note that this still needs to go on top of the powerpc.git tree due to the
> > pasemi_dma.h updates that this driver depends on. I suggest merging this
> > through pasemi.git->powerpc.git->linus with an Acked-by from the DMA guys.
>
> Ok, it still may not compile in mainline until after 2.6.26-rc1 due to
> additional dmaengine cleanups like the ack-to-flags change I posted
> earlier. Any better way to handle this? Go through -mm?

Either go through -mm where Andrew can keep it applied in appropriate
order and send upstream, or just merge it late. It's a new driver, and
they're normally OK to go in a little later. That might be the easiest
solution in this case.

> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-Olof

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