From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dan.j.williams@intel.com (Dan Williams) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:45:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 00/11] ARM: PrimeCell DMA Interface v5 In-Reply-To: <1270681920-4461-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> References: <1270681920-4461-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Linus, back online now. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: > This is the fifth iteration of this ever growing patch set > for PrimeCell DMA support, reposting the entire series. > > This now depend on stuff pending in Dan Williams async_tx > (DMA Devices/Engine) tree and Andrew Mortons tree where > the new DMA40 driver for U8500 is queued. > > I suggest putting these into Andrews tree now, since: > > A) 4 of the patches it touches MMCI code which is hanled > ? by Andrew > Ok, but it looks like they do not have a build dependency on dma bits so they could be merged separately i.e. on top of the async_tx branch. > B) It extends the DMA40 driver which is now pending in > ? his tree as well. > > C) Since there doesn't seem to be any consensus of whether > ? this is the right way forward, it needs some wider > ? testing I believe. No consensus with respect to which pieces, the Primecell driver or something outside of drivers/dma? Forgive me for missing recent conversations if this has been discussed to death already. > OK? I can go ahead and queue up the dma bits unless you would prefer, and Andrew agrees, to take this all through the -mm tree? -- Dan