Re: [PATCH] DMAEngine: Define generic transfer request api

[Matt Porter]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Koul, Vinod wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 15:06 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Koul, Vinod <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Currently we have two approaches to solve this problem first being the
>>> DMA_STRIDE_CONFIG proposed by Linus W, I feel this one is better
>>> approach as this can give client ability to configure each transfer
>>> rather than set for the channel. Linus W, do you agree?
>> 
>> I think Sundaram is in the position of doing some heavy work on
>> using one or the other of the API:s, and I think he is better
>> suited than anyone else of us to select what scheme to use,
>> in the end he's going to write the first code using the API.
> And Unfortunately TI folks don't seem to care about this discussion :(
> Haven't seen anything on this from them, or on previous RFC by Jassi

IIRC, Sundaram went on holiday. I suspect he cares a lot about this
discussion as he has a session on the topic at LPC.

-Matt
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