[PATCH v4 01/10] dmaengine: Move enum dma_slave_buswidth to a new header

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at intel.com
Thu Sep 17 23:24:57 PDT 2026


On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:39:54PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 15-09-26, 12:04, Frank Li wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 09:50:22PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > On 15-09-26, 21:22, Vinod Koul wrote:

...

> > > > > Traditional naming would be
> > > > > dma/engine/provider.h

(Actually majority of the subsystems use driver.h.)

> > > > > dma/engine/consumer.h
> > > >
> > > > consumer and provider and good names.. I would retain the full dmaengine
> > > > everywhere please. dma causes confusion already!
> > >
> > > Thinking about it again, drivers/dma/dmaengine.h should be the provider
> > 
> > There some dmaengine code outside drivers/dma directory, like
> > drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dmaengine.c
> 
> They chose to be outside, their choice... They need to be updated as
> well to point to ../../dma/dmaengine.h :-)

Hmm... It's rare to make such a requirement in the kernel for the resources
like this. All I know about (GPIO, regulator, pwrseq, IIO), they split and
provide the interfaces to the whole kernel.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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