Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dmaengine: pxa: add pxa dmaengine driver | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Wed, 27 May 2015 08:55:23 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:15 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> writes: > > Was it actually intended for PXA_DMA to be tristate? > It is designed to be a module, and in the "end" it will be a module. > > What is important to understand is the 3 phases which are going to happen : > - phase 1 : state after this is merged > pxa_dma must be builtin, for legacy support (see > pxad_toggle_reserved_channel()). > - phase 2 : slowly, all the pxa drivers are converted to dmaengine > - phase 3 : after full conversion, the patch "add support for legacy > transition" is reverted. > There pxa_dma will become modular, and the tristate will appear. > > In conclusion, it cannot be a module yet, but it will in the future.
Thanks for this explanation. So I didn't miss a comment or some remark in a commit explanation, did I?
Paul Bolle
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