[PATCH v4 3/5] dmaengine: pxa: add pxa dmaengine driver
Robert Jarzmik
robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Wed May 27 12:34:36 PDT 2015
Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> writes:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:15 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
>> Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> writes:
>> > Was it actually intended for PXA_DMA to be tristate?
>> It is designed to be a module, and in the "end" it will be a module.
>>
>> What is important to understand is the 3 phases which are going to happen :
>> - phase 1 : state after this is merged
>> pxa_dma must be builtin, for legacy support (see
>> pxad_toggle_reserved_channel()).
>> - phase 2 : slowly, all the pxa drivers are converted to dmaengine
>> - phase 3 : after full conversion, the patch "add support for legacy
>> transition" is reverted.
>> There pxa_dma will become modular, and the tristate will appear.
>>
>> In conclusion, it cannot be a module yet, but it will in the future.
>
> Thanks for this explanation. So I didn't miss a comment or some remark
> in a commit explanation, did I?
Unfortunately not ;)
Cheers.
--
Robert
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