[GIT PULL] ste_dma40 updates for 3.9

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Jan 15 03:53:05 EST 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:

> This series of patches only modify the ste_dma40 driver, there are no
> corresponding changes under arch/arm that need to be coordinated or
> considered w.r.t. merge conflicts. I.e. they all seem nicely isolated
> to only the driver.
>
> So is there a specific reason for why these shouldn't just go in
> through the dmaengine tree?

One reason would be if there are DMA bindings to device tree coming
this merge window, as I'm told, and it implicates a lot of platform code
changes on top of this as we adopt to it.

But maybe this will be wholly confined to the DMAengine tree?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list