[PATCH 6/7] spi/s3c64xx: Add support DMA engine API

[Jassi Brar]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:46:47PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
>> Ideally, like PL330 for S5Pxxxx, drivers/dma/pl080 should be enabled
>> for s3c64xx And new generic dma api drivers written for S3C24xx in
>> drivers/dma/
>
> Another solution would be to write a DMA engine driver which massages
> the Samsung DMA API into the DMA engine way of doing things.  You can
> then convert all the Samsung drivers to using DMA engine, and then
> sort out the Samsung DMA API as a separate issue.
>
OK, but before that we need to see if the effort involved in writing
the api 'mapping'
 driver would be sufficiently lesser than that of writing a common
driver for 24xx, which
IIRC are variations of each other.