[PATCH 00/21] dmaengine/ARM: Merge the edma drivers into one

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Sep 10 01:47:28 PDT 2015


On Thursday 10 September 2015 11:37:29 Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> 
> with this series the edma two driver setup will be changed to have only one
> driver to support eDMA3. The legacy edma interface will be removed and eDMA can
> only be used via dmaengine API from this point on.
> In order to do the merge the following improvements has been done:
> - One driver instance per eDMA:
>  - Any number of eDMA instances are supported (both legacy and DT boot)
> - Not relying on global variables, arrays, etc
> - Code simplification and optimizations in several places
> 
> This change will also help us to do bigger changes in the eDMA driver since,
> since now we have only one driver to work with.
> 

Very nice series, thanks for addressing this long-standing issue!

I've briefly read over the series and did not see anything major
sticking out, but I did not attempt to do a thorough review.

I found two minor things that I commented on that could be improved.

	Arnd



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