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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 22:52:56 +0530
From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the
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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