Kevin Hilman wrote:

Some of the comments about my earlier EDMA patches touched on issues
in that programming interface, like:

- The single call to allocate DMA resources is overly complex.

- Its programming model doesn't match the hardware well:  talking
 about master vs. slave, not channels and parameter RAM; confusing
 those two resource types (especially when allocating); etc.

- Since the calls used a "davinci_" prefix, they wouldn't be very
 appropriate for the DMA in the OMAP-L137 chip.

We were going to move the generic part of
arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c (alomg with other common code b/w so
called OMAP-L1x and DaVinci) to arch/arm/plat-davinci/ but the rename
seems reasonable anyway.

I keep hearing things like this, but have not yet seen any patches, or
technical arguments for doing so.

  The technical argument is simple: sharing the code for two similar
platforms, the EDMA code in particular.

The code already is shared.

How? You're not supposed to looks for the shared code in other mach-*/ dirs, are you?

Kevin

WBR, Sergei

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