Hi Cyril,

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 23:55:55, Chemparathy, Cyril wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> [...]
> >> In addition to being embedded into the EMAC controller, the CPDMA hardware
> >> block is used in TI's CPSW switch controller.  Fortunately, the programming
> >> interface to this hardware block remains somewhat consistent across these
> >> devices.
> >>
> >> This series contains a new reusable cpdma implementation, as well as
> >> corresponding changes to plug unto the current emac driver.
> >>
> >> This code has been very briefly tested on DM365.  Performance and stability
> >> tests have not yet been run.  Further, this code does not handle
> >> transmit/receive errors properly.  In short, this code is still pretty raw,
> >> and is being posted here for some early feedback on the overall approach.
> >
> > I presume driver for the TI CPSW switch controler also going to live under
> > drivers/net, right?
>
> Correct.
>
> > If so, the approach looks OK to me, but everything under drivers/net needs
> > review on the netdev list and will merge via the net-2.6 tree.
>
> Understood.  The  RFC posts were strictly for early feedback.
>
> Once I stabilize this code (incl. CPSW), I will repost on netdev and
> davinci MLs.
>

How about checking if you can fit your abstraction into drivers/dma/?

Thanks,
Sekhar
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