linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] dmaengine: Moving TI SDMA driver to dmaengine

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:30:18 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vkoul@...radead.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	vinod.koul@...el.com, "Raju, Sundaram" <sundaram@...com>,
	Dan <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dmaengine: Moving TI SDMA driver to dmaengine - design
 plan

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 11:04 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:52:17PM +0530, Raju, Sundaram wrote:
> > I am planning to move TI SDMA driver in OMAP tree
> > into the dmaengine framework.
> > 
> > The first immediate issue of concern I noticed is the
> > huge number of client drivers that use the existing SDMA driver.
> > More than 15 client drivers are using the current SDMA driver.
> > 
> > Moving the SDMA driver along with all of these client drivers at a
> > single stretch seems a humungous task. 
> > I noticed a model in the existing DMA drivers in dmaengine
> > framework that will over come this issue. 
> 
> It _is_ sane to build a dmaengine driver on top of the existing SoC
> private API, then convert the drivers to DMA engine, and then cleanup
> the resulting DMA engine driver.
> 
> What we must make sure though is that the DMA engine slave API (which
> isn't well documented) is correctly implemented before drivers are
> converted over to use the DMA engine support code, otherwise we may
> end up with lots of drivers that require re-fixing several times over.
Russel,

Remember we have addressed the documentation part, is there something
else you feel is still missing?

-- 
~Vinod Koul
Intel Corp.

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