netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/10] net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine

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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:53:15 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@....com>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
 <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
 <michal.simek@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, <linux@...linux.org.uk>, <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
 <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <git@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/10] net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:21:39 +0530 Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
> The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate
> with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind
> this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine
> driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the
> ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes
> it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA
> without any modification.
> 
> The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during
> the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further
> enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
> features are very welcome!

Vinod, any preference on how this gets merged?
Since we're already at -rc5 if the dmaengine parts look good to you 
taking those in for 6.6 and delaying the networking bits until 6.7
could be on the table? Possibly?