Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] dmaengine: Support bus widths of 32 bytes and above

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 03:21:38 EST


On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 04:56:18PM +0100, Nuno Sá wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 04:45:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 12:46:38PM +0100, Nuno Sá wrote:

...

> > > F: drivers/dma/
> > > F: include/dt-bindings/dma/
> > > F: include/linux/dma/
> > > +F: include/linux/dma/engine/
> > > F: include/linux/dmaengine.h
> > > F: include/linux/of_dma.h
> >
> > Unneeded, previous entry includes recursively.
>
> Checkpatch complains so I guess we assume it's a tool issue?

Can you confirm that without this line get_maintainer.pl works? If it does,
then the problem is in checkpatch.pl (false positive).

...

> > It's possible to split this patch to two:
> > - move the existing type into a new types.h header
> > - add support for the new API
>
> Yeah I thought about that but this still looked simple enough to go
> together but I can split in the next version.

I think the split is needed as it makes better view on the changes
(and accompanying justifications in the commit messages).

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko