Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758204AbbKSKgc (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:36:32 -0500 Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.40]:51867 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756210AbbKSKg3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:36:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] dmaengine: Introduce dma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason() To: Andy Shevchenko 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> 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 From: Peter Ujfalusi Message-ID: <564DA61E.2070004@ti.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:36:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 29 On 11/18/2015 05:46 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > 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). I tend to agree. But we need to start converting the users at some point either way. Another issue is the fact that the current dmaengine API is using all the good names I can think of ;) > 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. > -- Péter -- 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/