Re: [PATCH 1/5] dmaengine: add ep93xx DMA support

[Koul, Vinod]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 10:39 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/5/22 Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxx>:
> 
> > The ep93xx DMA controller has 10 independent memory to peripheral (M2P)
> > channels, and 2 dedicated memory to memory (M2M) channels. M2M channels can
> > also be used by SPI and IDE to perform DMA transfers to/from their memory
> > mapped FIFOs.
> 
> No so much a review comment as an observation: I opposed the merge of the
> EP93xx SPI driver in drivers/spi/ep93xx_spi.c on the grounds that it was close
> enough to amba-pl022.c that it could use that driver instead.
> 
> One of the arguments against was that you were going to do custom DMA
> and stuff. Now you're using the DMAengine, so can you please reconsider
> refactoring amba-pl022.c to suit your needs and you'll get DMA support for
> free mor or less.
Linus is the dma IP same as existing ones? 
In that case we shouldn't have a new driver for same IP.

-- 
~Vinod

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