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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] dmaengine: ti: k3-psil-j721e: Add entry for CSI2RX
To:     Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>
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On 4/6/21 8:10 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> On 06/04/21 10:25PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>> On 06/04/21 06:33PM, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/6/21 6:09 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/21 04:24PM, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>>>> Hi Pratyush,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/30/21 8:33 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>>>>>> The CSI2RX subsystem uses PSI-L DMA to transfer frames to memory. It can
>>>>>> have up to 32 threads but the current driver only supports using one. So
>>>>>> add an entry for that one thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are absolutely sure that the other threads are not going to be
>>>>> used, then:
>>>>
>>>> The opposite in fact. I do expect other threads to be used in the 
>>>> future. But the current driver can only use one so I figured it is 
>>>> better to add just the thread that is currently needed and then I can 
>>>> always add the rest later.
>>>>
>>>> Why does this have to be a one-and-done deal? Is there anything wrong 
>>>> with adding the other threads when the driver can actually use them?
>>>
>>> You can skip CCing DMAengine (and me ;) ). Less subsystems is the better
>>> when sending patches...
>>
>> I'm a bit confused here. If you are no longer interested in maintaining 
>> the TI DMA drivers then that's fine, I can skip CCing you. But the patch 
>> is still relevant to the dmaengine list so why should I skip CCing it? 
>> And if I don't CC the dmaengine list then on which list would I get 
>> comments/reviews for the patch?
> 
> Ignore this. Got your point. Will do it in v2.

If you know that you will be adding the other threads in the near future
then do it with one patch. When you add the support in the csi2rx driver
then you don't need to change the DMAengine files, thus no need to CC
dmaengine or me, thus you need to gather less acked-bys, thus the time
to mainline might be shorter.

-- 
Péter