Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:17:57 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>,
        dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v3 2/2] dmaengine: qcom_bam_dma: Add device tree binding
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:16:53AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 10:05:35 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > Why does the direction needs to be specified in specifier? I see two
> > options, either the direction per is fixed in hardware. In that case the DMA
> > controller node should describe which channel is which direction. Or the
> > direction is not fixed in hardware and can be changed at runtime in which
> > case it should be set on a per descriptor basis.
> 
> Normally the direction is implied by dmaengine_slave_config().

No.  The direction argument in there is deprecated - we've been talking
about removing it for some time.

DMA engine drivers should store all parameters of the configuration, and
then select the appropriate ones when preparing a transfer (which itself
involves a direction.)

Not doing this implies that if you have a half-duplex device, you have to
repeatedly issue a dmaengine_slave_config() call, a prepare call, and a
submit call to the DMA engine code for every segment you want to transfer.
We don't need that kind of DMA engine specific behaviour in DMA engine
users.

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