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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/10] net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:21:39 +0530 Radhey Shyam Pandey 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.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
> features are very welcome!

Vinod, any preference on how this gets merged?
Since we're already at -rc5 if the dmaengine parts look good to you 
taking those in for 6.6 and delaying the networking bits until 6.7
could be on the table? Possibly?