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    SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v5 00/10] net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine
    On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:21:39 +0530 Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
    > The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate
    > with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind
    > this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine
    > driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the
    > ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes
    > it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA
    > without any modification.
    >
    > The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during
    > the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further
    > enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases.
    >
    > Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
    > features are very welcome!

    Vinod, any preference on how this gets merged?
    Since we're already at -rc5 if the dmaengine parts look good to you
    taking those in for 6.6 and delaying the networking bits until 6.7
    could be on the table? Possibly?

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