From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH for 4.4 0/2] DT/dmaengine: edma: Convert 16bit arrays to 32bit
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:34:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151210030410.GG1854@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151209201226.GB23396@atomide.com>
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 12:12:27PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> [151209 00:19]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Based on the discussion regarding to (convert am33xx to use the new eDMA
> > bindings):
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap at vger.kernel.org/msg122117.html
> >
> > This two patch will convert the new eDMA binding to not use 16bit arrays for
> > memcpy channel selection and for marking slots reserved.
> > The '/bits/ 16' seams to be causing confusion so it is probably better to just
> > use standard type for the arrays.
> >
> > The new bindings for the eDMA is introduced for 4.4 and we do not have users of
> > it, which means that we can still change it w/o the risk of breaking anything
> > and we do not need to maintain the compatibility with 16bit arrays.
> >
> > The changes in the eDMA driver is local to the DT parsing and should not
> > conflict with other changes (like the filter function mapping support). Hrm,
> > there might be trivial conflict in the include/linux/platform_data/edma.h with
> > the "dmaengine 'universal' API".
> >
> > Tony, Arnd, Vinod: Can you agree on the practicalities on how these patches are
> > going to be handled? I would like to send the updated am33xx/am437x conversion
> > for 4.5 based on these changes.
>
> Yes this should go into v4.4 as discussed, otherwise it will be a mess.
> For both, please feel free to add:
>
> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
>
> I suggest Vinod sets up an immutable branch against v4.4-rc1 with just these
> two patches. Then it can get merged into whichever branch needs it, I
> certainly will need it as most of my v4.5 branches are v4.4-rc1 or -rc2
> based.
>
> Then the immutable branch can be merged into v4.4 by Vinod or Arnd.
Applied to fix/edma. This is based on -rc1 and will not rebase.
I am merging this to my fixes and will send to Linus in couple of days
Thanks
--
~Vinod
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 8:18 [PATCH for 4.4 0/2] DT/dmaengine: edma: Convert 16bit arrays to 32bit Peter Ujfalusi
2015-12-09 8:18 ` [PATCH for 4.4 1/2] dmaengine: edma: DT: Change memcpy channel array from 16bit to 32bit type Peter Ujfalusi
2015-12-09 20:02 ` Rob Herring
2015-12-09 20:06 ` Rob Herring
2015-12-09 8:18 ` [PATCH for 4.4 2/2] dmaengine: edma: DT: Change reserved slot " Peter Ujfalusi
2015-12-09 20:08 ` Rob Herring
2015-12-09 9:00 ` [PATCH for 4.4 0/2] DT/dmaengine: edma: Convert 16bit arrays to 32bit Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-09 20:12 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-12-10 3:04 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
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