[PATCH v3 2/2] DMAEngine: Add DMAEngine driver based on old MSM DMA APIs

Daniel Walker dwalker at fifo99.com
Mon Mar 12 16:14:21 EDT 2012


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:02:44PM +0530, Ravi Kumar V wrote:
> Add DMAEngine based driver using the old MSM DMA APIs internally.

What do you mean by this?

> The benefit of this approach is that not all the drivers
> have to get converted to DMAEngine APIs simultaneosly while
> both the drivers can stay enabled in the kernel. The client
> drivers using the old MSM APIs directly can now convert to
> DMAEngine one by one.

Which drivers?

Daniel



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