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Message-Id: <201304251036.52284.arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:36:52 +0200
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus WALLEIJ <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Dan Williams <djbw@...com>,
Per Forlin <per.forlin@...ricsson.com>,
Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/32] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Amalgamate DMA source and destination channel numbers
On Thursday 25 April 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Are we now sacrificing that ability on the altar of simplification?
>
> I actually think not, but that we should do periph-to-periph transfers
> in some other way, and that the .dir attribute should go away from
> the struct stedma40_chan_cfg as well but I'm not entirely sure.
> Someone else?
The dma-engine core has no support for device-to-device transfers,
and as far as I understand that is neither considered a useful
feature in real life, nor easy to add, so I don't think it matters
much here.
Arnd
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