linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] spi: qup: Add DMA capabilities

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Date:	Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:20:20 +0200
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	Sagar Dharia <sdharia@...eaurora.org>,
	Daniel Sneddon <dsneddon@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] spi: qup: Add DMA capabilities

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> wrote:
> On 03/07/2015 08:43 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

>>> Applied, but why is there no devm_dma_request_slave_channel_reason()?
>>
>> I suppose the answer would be "we have a lot of slightly different
>> cases and we have to get rid of current mess with legacy API calls".
>> The most problematic stuff now inside DMA slave subsystem is so called
>> "filter function". It's a main impediment right now as I understand.
>
> dma_request_slave_channel_reason() is the sane API though and does not use
> the filter functions. Adding a devm version of it seems reasonable.

It would be dma_request_slave_channel() in the first place, but legacy
stuff didn't allow to do that, so here we are. I wouldn't like the
idea of creating devm_dma_* before we will have stable function names
without legacy involving.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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