Re: provide DMA services in drivers/crypto

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:57:45PM +0000, Tudor-Dan Ambarus wrote:

Please wrap your mails within 80 chars, I have reflown below for reabability.

> Hi, Herbert,
> 
> CAAM has the ability to provide DMA services. This is helpful for
> platforms that don't have a dedicated DMA hardware block.
> 
> In this particular example, caam being a crypto accelerator at its
> fundamentals, where is recommended to add a caam-dma engine
> implementation, in drivers/dma or in drivers/crypto? Are the any
> rules/guidelines?

If the dma controller is internal to crypto, then it might be okay to be
inside the crypto driver. But if it is shared or common controller then a
dmaengine implementation would make sense..

> I noticed that CCP already registered DMA services, the driver being held
> in drivers/crypto.

I think drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dmaengine.c is wrong example, it should have
been in dmaengine directory. Not sure why it was addded in crypto :(

Thanks
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~Vinod
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