From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jassisinghbrar@gmail.com (Jassi Brar) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:39:43 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ARM:SAMSUNG: Move S3C DMA driver to drivers/dma In-Reply-To: References: <1307432901-22781-1-git-send-email-alim.akhtar@samsung.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Kyungmin Park wrote: > > As I know there's are PL330 DMA implementation by > MODULE_AUTHOR("Jaswinder Singh "); Thanks for CC'ing me, though my current contact is jaswinder.singh at linaro.org or jassisinghbrar at gmail.com Perhaps I need to change the email in all locations. > Doesn't it better to use the generic PL330 instead of Samsung specific > PL330 implementation? Unfortunately, no. There are some features of Samsung's DMA API that the drivers have come to rely upon. Besides, I am not particularly a fan of the generic API. And IIRC, neither is Ben Dooks, the designer of the Samsung's DMA API. > As I remember Jassi has a plan to use generic one? No plans, sorry. thnx -j