[PATCH 2/2] ARM: S3C24XX: Move the DMA base code to mach-s3c24xx
Kukjin Kim
kgene.kim at samsung.com
Wed Feb 22 12:38:15 EST 2012
On 02/23/12 02:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2012, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner<heiko at sntech.de>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/Kconfig | 18 +
>> arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/Makefile | 1 +
>> arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/dma.c | 1469 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/Kconfig | 16 -
>> arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/Makefile | 1 -
>> arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c | 1469 ----------------------------------------
>> 6 files changed, 1488 insertions(+), 1486 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/dma.c
>> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to move this driver to
> drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c instead?
>
Basically I agree, it is just specific dma only for s3c24xx though.
I think, for that, we need to update its driver when moving.
> Even if it doesn't (yet) use the dmaengine API, I think it's
> valuable to keep drivers with the same purpose together. We have
> had similar discussions in other subsystems and ended up moving
> the drivers into one directory first, followed by a conversion
> to a common API (if someone could be motivated to do that work).
>
Yes, and we need to move s3c24xx cpufreq to drivers/cpufreq and it will
be done soon.
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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