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From: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:40:54 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Add support for Loongson1 DMA
To: Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@gmail.com>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>, 
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:32=E2=80=AFAM Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@gmail=
com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:42=E2=80=AFPM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> =
wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 10:26:51PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > Hi, Conor,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 7:28=E2=80=AFPM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.or=
g> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 03:31:59PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 10:08=E2=80=AFAM Keguang Zhang <keguang.z=
hang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Huacai,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi, Keguang,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Sorry for the late reply, there is already a ls2x-apb-dma dri=
ver, I'm
> > > > > > > not sure but can they share the same code base? If not, can r=
ename
> > > > > > > this driver to ls1x-apb-dma for consistency?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There are some differences between ls1x DMA and ls2x DMA, such =
as
> > > > > > registers and DMA descriptors.
> > > > > > I will rename it to ls1x-apb-dma.
> > > > > OK, please also rename the yaml file to keep consistency.
> > > >
> > > > No, the yaml file needs to match the (one of the) compatible string=
s.
> > > OK, then I think we can also rename the compatible strings, if possib=
le.
> >
> > If there are no other types of dma controller on this device, I do not
> > see why would we add "apb" into the compatible as there is nothing to
> > differentiate this controller from.
>
> That's true. 1A/1B/1C only have one APB DMA.
> Should I keep the compatible "ls1b-dma" and "ls1c-dma"?
The name "apbdma" comes from the user manual, "exchange data between
memory and apb devices", at present there are two drivers using this
naming: tegra20-apb-dma.c and ls2x-apb-dma.c.

Huacai

>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Keguang Zhang