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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:14:21 -0700
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Ravi Kumar V <kumarrav@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] DMAEngine: Add DMAEngine driver based on old MSM
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:02:44PM +0530, Ravi Kumar V wrote:
> Add DMAEngine based driver using the old MSM DMA APIs internally.

What do you mean by this?

> The benefit of this approach is that not all the drivers
> have to get converted to DMAEngine APIs simultaneosly while
> both the drivers can stay enabled in the kernel. The client
> drivers using the old MSM APIs directly can now convert to
> DMAEngine one by one.

Which drivers?

Daniel