Re: [PATCH V1] dmaengine: tegra: add dma driver

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 05:37:43 EST


On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:31 +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>
> I had a communication with Russell on another change thread and
> understand that some more work need to be done in virt_chan to support
> cyclic one.
>
> I want to have the cyclic dma support in my driver so I want to go on
> following steps:
> 1. I will post the patch for tegra dma which will not use the virt_dma
> so that my driver will be independent of Russel's change.
which driver? A new driver for cyclic support only or on top of
Russell's changes?
> 2. Once the tegra dma is part of tree, I can move all my dma client to
> use the dmaengine based driver and remove old style dma.
> 3. Till that time Russell's will have already virt_dma support for
> cyclic one and so I will change tegra_dma.c to use virt_dma.
>
>
> Let me know your opinion so that I can plan my patch/change
> accordingly.

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~Vinod

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