[PATCH] ARM:SAMSUNG: Move S3C DMA driver to drivers/dma

Kyungmin Park kmpark at infradead.org
Thu Jun 16 08:56:45 EDT 2011


2011/6/10 Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>:
> On 06/07/11 15:36, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> I see no effort from the Samsung folk to even start considering moving
>> to common APIs - I see precisely the opposite.  They seem to have a
>> strong desire to invent their own new APIs all the time rather than
>> look at existing APIs and discuss how they can be used or adapted so
>> they work for Samsung.
>>
>> That is not sustainable, and if it continues, it will probably result
>> in Samsung stuff being chucked out of mainline.  We are most definitely
>> at the point where custom APIs are no longer permissible, especially
>> for any new SoCs.
>
> Hi Russell and everyone,
>
> Sorry for late participation on this :(
> I'm out of my office for biz. trip so it was hard to check my e-mail
> and will be back to my country this weekend.
>
> Anyway, I and my colleagues know what we have to do for Linux world.
> And as I know, we are preparing some stuff for it so please don't
> expect the worst :)
>
> I should be back on this after discussing with my colleagues.
Any updates? still need more time?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Kgene.
> --
> Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
> SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
>



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