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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 3/5] dmaengine: pxa: add pxa dmaengine driver
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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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