linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] dmaengine: Actions: get rid of bit fields from dma descriptor

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:44:01 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     Amit Singh Tomar <amittomer25@...il.com>
Cc:     andre.przywara@....com, afaerber@...e.de,
        manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        cristian.ciocaltea@...il.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-actions@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] dmaengine: Actions: get rid of bit fields from
 dma descriptor

On 19-07-20, 23:11, Amit Singh Tomar wrote:
> At the moment, Driver uses bit fields to describe registers of the DMA
> descriptor structure that makes it less portable and maintainable, and
> Andre suugested(and even sketched important bits for it) to make use of
> array to describe this DMA descriptors instead. It gives the flexibility
> while extending support for other platform such as Actions S700.
> 
> This commit removes the "owl_dma_lli_hw" (that includes bit-fields) and
> uses array to describe DMA descriptor.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod