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[RFC,13/13] Documentation: add schedule for removing private EDMA API

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Matt Porter Sept. 20, 2012, 2:43 p.m. UTC
The davinci-pcm driver is the last in-kernel user of the private
EDMA API. Once it has been converted to DMA Engine API the
private EDMA API functionality can be folded into the EDMA DMA
Engine driver and removed.

Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
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 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

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Mark Brown Sept. 20, 2012, 3:58 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:43:46AM -0400, Matt Porter wrote:

>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

We decided at kernel summit that we'd stop bothering with this, it's
mostly just bitrot and rarely read.  I guess the ASoC driver update
isn't ready yet?
Matt Porter Sept. 20, 2012, 4:05 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:43:46AM -0400, Matt Porter wrote:
> 
> >  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> We decided at kernel summit that we'd stop bothering with this, it's
> mostly just bitrot and rarely read.  I guess the ASoC driver update
> isn't ready yet?

Ok, I'll drop this from the series.

No, I'm just getting real time now to work on the davinci-pcm dma engine
conversion and cyclic dma support for edma. That driver is somewhat of a
mess as it has some older platforms dependent on SRAM-based ping-pong
buffering and that all need to be sorted during this. It is the only
remaining blocker though for getting rid of the private API.

-Matt
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index f4d8c71..64109e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -637,3 +637,13 @@  Who:	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
 	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
 
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+
+What:	EDMA private DMA implementation
+When:	2013
+Why:	We have a DMA engine implementation; all users should be updated
+	to use this rather than persisting with the old APIs.  The old APIs
+	block merging the old DMA engine implementation into the DMA
+	engine driver.
+Who:	Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
+
+----------------------------