[PATCH V6 2/2] dmaengine: add helper function to request a slave DMA channel

[vinod.koul@linux.intel.com (Vinod Koul)]

On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 10:43 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:05:01AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:25 -0500, Jon Hunter wrote:
> > > > For DT bindings, I think the binding itself shouldn't change based on my
> > > > work but I would like these same bindings to help build the DMA engine
> > > > code mappings.
> > > > 
> > > > Now would it make sense to NOT merge these changes for 3.7 and postpone
> > > > to 3.8. I can host these patches on a topic branch and merge them when
> > > > we are ready. I plan to spend some good amount of time on my work this
> > > > week so we should be ready pretty soon.
> > > > One these changes are merged, users can start moving to this scheme.
> > > 
> > > I just wanted to see how things are progressing your side. Did you
> > > create a topic branch for this? If so let me know where I can find it, I
> > > did not find a branch on your infradead git tree.
> > > 
> > > I wanted to pull in the latest patches for some testing. 
> > Sorry for delay, I had everything ready, but couldn't manage to commit
> > and push. I have pushed to topic/dmaengine_dt, it is pushing out now...
> > 
> Vinod,
> 
> Looks it seemed 3.7-rc1.  Does that mean we have to wait for 3.8, or
> will it show on later -rc for 3.7?
Yes this will be merged once we work out the common interface, otherwise
we will end up redoing interfaces for all drivers.

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~Vinod