[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: add CPPI 4.1 DMA support

Felipe Balbi me at felipebalbi.com
Tue Jan 4 09:56:28 EST 2011


Hi,

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 22:40 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > The end goal is just to drop all these ad-hoc "APIs" for accessing DMA
> > on musb code.
> 
> If this kind of DMA controllers are only used by MUSB, seems not
> necessary to convert to dmaengine API.  Any benefit we can get
> from the convert?   MUSB is cross-platform already after all.

<irony>
correct, OMAP GPIO controller is only used on OMAPs, so why do we even
bother having gpiolib, right ?
</irony>

-- 
balbi




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