From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 22:52:56 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140801172256.GH8181@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140731132223.GK30282@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:22:23PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> DMA engine has lacked a lot of infrastructure for common patterns in
> drivers; some of that is solved by my efforts with the virt_dma.c
> support, and also various cleanups to existing drivers, but it's not
> easy to fix this problem after drivers have been merged.
I think list management is something that needs fix. I see lots of time and
energy being spent by drivers in this.
I will plan for this in near future to move descriptor and list management
to the framework. That should help drivers get cleaned up a bit more
--
~Vinod
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-01 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-30 16:03 [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API Maxime Ripard
2014-07-30 16:06 ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 7:44 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 11:56 ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 16:23 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:13 ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-02 14:49 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 19:06 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-05 16:25 ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 12:44 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 16:13 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 16:54 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 17:37 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 8:00 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-01 8:57 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:15 ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-01 18:09 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-02 15:13 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-04 7:16 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 13:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-31 16:41 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 14:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 15:11 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 19:05 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:22 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2014-08-05 8:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-14 8:53 ` Ludovic Desroches
2014-08-14 8:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-19 13:45 ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-19 14:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-19 14:57 ` Vinod Koul
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