Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933217AbbKRPqv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:46:51 -0500 Received: from mail-yk0-f193.google.com ([209.85.160.193]:33965 "EHLO mail-yk0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755207AbbKRPqs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:46:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <564C8966.9080406@ti.com> References: <1432646768-12532-1-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <1432646768-12532-3-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <20150529093317.GF3140@localhost> <20150529101846.GG3140@localhost> <55687892.7050606@ti.com> <20150602125535.GS3140@localhost> <5570758E.6030302@ti.com> <20150612125837.GJ28601@localhost> <5587F1F4.1060905@ti.com> <20150624162401.GP19530@localhost> <564C8966.9080406@ti.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:46:47 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] dmaengine: Introduce dma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason() From: Andy Shevchenko To: Peter Ujfalusi Cc: Vinod Koul , Geert Uytterhoeven , Tony Lindgren , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dan Williams , dmaengine , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Linux MMC List , linux-crypto , linux-spi , Linux Media Mailing List , ALSA Development Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 23 On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > Hi Vinod, > > bringing this old thread back to life as I just started to work on this. What I remember we need to convert drivers to use new API meanwhile it is good to keep old one to avoid patch storm which does nothing useful (IIRC Russel's opinion). On the other hand there are a lot of drivers that are used on the set of platforms starting from legacy and abandoned ones (like AVR32) to relatively new and newest. And I'm not a fan of those thousands of API calls either. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/