From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vinod.koul@linux.intel.com (Vinod Koul) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:09:04 +0530 Subject: [PATCH V6 2/2] dmaengine: add helper function to request a slave DMA channel In-Reply-To: <20121016024318.GF24393@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> References: <1347662517-4210-1-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> <1347662517-4210-3-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> <1347852805.1943.130.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <201209171159.27359.arnd@arndb.de> <20120917223619.GC12445@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1347938035.1943.162.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <5060DDEB.4000600@ti.com> <1348547701.1943.190.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <20121016024318.GF24393@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> Message-ID: <1350355144.1648.5259.camel@vkoul-udesk3> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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. -- ~Vinod