Re: [PATCH net-next V4 0/3] net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine

[Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:08:41AM +0530, Sarath Babu Naidu Gaddam wrote:
> The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate
> with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind
> this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine
> driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the
> ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes
> it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA
> without any modification.
> 
> The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during
> the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further
> enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases.
> 
> Backward compatibility support:
> To support backward compatibility, we are planning to use below approach,
> 1) Use "dmas" property as an optional for now to differentiate
>    dmaengine based ethernet Driver or built-in dma ethernet driver.
>    Will move this property to required property some time later.
> 2) after some time, will introduce a new compatible string to support
>    the dmaengine method, This new compatible name will use different
>    APIs for init and data transfer.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
> features are very welcome!

Hi Sarath,

unfortunately this series doesn't apply on net-next.

net-next is currently closed.
So please provide a v5 once it reposts, after 10th July.

On the other hand, RFCs are welcome any time.

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#development

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