[PATCH 08/12] ARM: S3C: Add info for supporting circular DMA buffers

Ben Dooks ben-linux at fluff.org
Wed Oct 28 08:47:51 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:39:45PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:15:49PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> > The S3C64XX DMA implementation will work a lot better with the ability
> > to enqueue circular buffers as the hardware can do it's own linked-list
> > management.
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> 
> If Samsung are going to be doing their upstreaming stuff it may make
> sense to merge this via ASoC since I anticipate some changes there, but
> on the other hand that seems to have ground to a halt and the merge may
> well go smoothly anyway.  My standard answer here would be putting the
> patch on a branch by itself so if there are any issues it can be merged
> into both trees to avoid the merge issues.

I was pushing this up via my tree, it touches both the core and ASoC code
so decided to merge myself and copy-you.

On the whole Samsung merging, there is still work in progress there so
we will see what is going to happen.
 
-- 
Ben

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A:      One-third less calories than a regular year.




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