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Message-ID: <e47927aa-8d40-aa71-aef4-5f9c4cbbc03a@ti.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:59:13 +0200
From: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
CC: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: Stear users towards
dma_request_slave_chan()
Hi Andy,
On 03/02/2020 12.37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:32 PM Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com> wrote:
>
>> dma_request_slave_channel_reason() no longer have user in mainline, it
>> can be removed.
>>
>> Advise users of dma_request_slave_channel() and
>> dma_request_slave_channel_compat() to move to dma_request_slave_chan()
>
> How? There are legacy ARM boards you have to care / remove before.
> DMAengine subsystem makes a p*s off decisions
The dma_slave_map support is added few years back for the legacy ARM
boards, because we do care.
daVinci, OMAP1, pxa, s3cx4xx and even m68k/coldfire moved over.
Imho it is confusing to have 4+ APIs to do the same thing, but in a
slightly different way.
> without taking care of
> (I'm talking now about dma release callback, for example) end users.
I have been converting users in the background, but the _compat() is a
bit more problematic as I need to maintainers of those legacy platforms
to craft the map. If they care.
Obviously the APIs are not going to be removed if we have a single user
and if there is clearly a need for something the _compat() was doing and
it can not be done via the dma_slave_map, then rest assured there will
be a clean API to achieve just that.
> They will be scary for no reason.
There is a reason: to clean up the API to make it non confusing for the
users.
New drivers should not use the old API i new code and developers tend to
pick the API they use after a quick 'git grep dma_request_' and see what
the majority is using.
- Péter
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