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

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:12:49 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
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 03/08/2015 01:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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.
>

At some point when all callers dma_request_slave_channel() have been updated 
to use dma_request_slave_channel_reason(), the later might be renamed to the 
former. I don't see the problem with having to do the same for a 
devm_dma_request_slave_channel_reason().

- Lars
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