Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] dmaengine: Add API function dmaengine_prep_peripheral_dma_vec()

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On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 13:13 +0100, Nuno Sa wrote:
> From: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This function can be used to initiate a scatter-gather DMA transfer,
> where the address and size of each segment is located in one entry of
> the dma_vec array.
> 
> The major difference with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is that it supports
> specifying the lengths of each DMA transfer; as trying to override the
> length of the transfer with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is a very tedious
> process. The introduction of a new API function is also justified by the
> fact that scatterlists are on their way out.
> 
> Note that dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma() is not helpful either in that
> case, as it assumes that the address of each segment will be higher than
> the one of the previous segment, which we just cannot guarantee in case
> of a scatter-gather transfer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Hi Vinod,

Is this already good for you? I do not want to be pushy but we're trying to see
if we can have this in the 6.9 cycle and Jonathan definitely wants an ack from
you before merging this in his tree. I've more or less till Wednesday so that's
why I'm asking already today so I still have time to re-spin if you want some
changes.

- Nuno Sá







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