Re: [PATCH V6 2/2] dmaengine: add helper function to request a slave DMA channel

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On 10/15/2012 09:39 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 10:43 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:05:01AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:25 -0500, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>>>> For DT bindings, I think the binding itself shouldn't change based on my
>>>>> work but I would like these same bindings to help build the DMA engine
>>>>> code mappings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now would it make sense to NOT merge these changes for 3.7 and postpone
>>>>> to 3.8. I can host these patches on a topic branch and merge them when
>>>>> we are ready. I plan to spend some good amount of time on my work this
>>>>> week so we should be ready pretty soon.
>>>>> One these changes are merged, users can start moving to this scheme.
>>>>
>>>> I just wanted to see how things are progressing your side. Did you
>>>> create a topic branch for this? If so let me know where I can find it, I
>>>> did not find a branch on your infradead git tree.
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to pull in the latest patches for some testing. 
>>> Sorry for delay, I had everything ready, but couldn't manage to commit
>>> and push. I have pushed to topic/dmaengine_dt, it is pushing out now...
>>>
>> Vinod,
>>
>> Looks it seemed 3.7-rc1.  Does that mean we have to wait for 3.8, or
>> will it show on later -rc for 3.7?
> Yes this will be merged once we work out the common interface, otherwise
> we will end up redoing interfaces for all drivers.

Hi Vinod,

A few people have been asking me if getting device-tree support for DMA
engine is plan for record for v3.8. I know that you were working through
implementing a common interface and so I wanted to check how that is
going. Do you have any insight to when device-tree support may get added?

Cheers
Jon

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