Re: [RFD RESEND] dmaengine: add new sleepy alloc descriptor and slave sg APIs

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There have been discussions on need for change of dmaengine API for
> a) allow sleepy invocation of the prepare descriptor so that drivers can
> do the runtime pm (maybe move into core as well)
> b) split the prepare operation to allocate and new prepare methods

I'm wondering if you should you go even further and move to a more
idiomatic model where a generic request is prepared outside the driver
and passed in, rather than the current situation of requiring the
driver to wrap a dma_async_tx_descriptor inside it's internal command
structure.
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