linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/25] dmaengine/ARM: Merge the edma drivers into one

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:57:55 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
Cc:	nsekhar@...com, linux@....linux.org.uk, olof@...om.net,
	arnd@...db.de, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/25] dmaengine/ARM: Merge the edma drivers into one

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:01:47PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Cover letter:
> 
> with this series the edma two driver setup will be changed to have only one
> driver to support eDMA3. The legacy edma interface will be removed and eDMA can
> only be used via dmaengine API from this point on.
> In order to do the merge the following improvements has been done:
> - One driver instance per eDMA:
>  - Any number of eDMA instances are supported (both legacy and DT boot)
> - Not relying on global variables, arrays, etc
> - Code simplification and optimizations in several places

One question though, after this move and merge are we still left with edma
in arm/ ?

-- 
~Vinod

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