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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] PL330: Add PL330 DMA controller driver
On 3/26/2010 7:27 AM, jassi brar wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>> jassi brar wrote:
>>>> Perhaps Joonyoung can simply port over the stuff
>>>> you need to this driver if you show your code.
>>> Having worked on Samsung SoCs(with PL330 DMAC) based products, I would be
>>> _very_ surprised if any user found this implementation useful.
>>> Let alone testing, this implementation can't even explain usability
>>> for fast peripherals
>>> with shallow FIFOs. I didn't give feedback for this patch because I am
>>> not sure if this
>>> is the right way to go at all.
>> This is the wrong attitude. 혻If it were not for a simple oversight
>> Joonyoung's driver would already be upstream for the past two kernel
>> releases. 혻So you need to work together to improve that driver to
>> incorporate what you need.
> Nothing wrong in attitude here.
> Giving feedback on the code only comes after one is convinced with the
> overall approach taken. The last time I raised the PL330 driver issue,
> most people were not enthusiastic with this drivers/dma/ approach.
> I wasn't active mainline discussions when the driver was originally
> submitted a few months ago.
> And now my replies are not very 'polite' because theres a lot going on
> in the background that people in public threads don't know about.
>
>
>> It sounds like you just need to add an extension for the arch specific dma
>> api.
> I actually plan more than that.
> Apart from inefficient design, JoonYoung's driver has made some fatal
> assumptions
> about PL330, which will result in DMA aborts if used with SoCs that implement
> configuration of PL330 that is very different from Samsung SoCs'
> Of course, I address all such issues that I can think of, in my implementation.
>

I can wait your implementation and wonder what is the issue also.

I welcome you try other design and want better driver is committed at
mainline kernel too.
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