From: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
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Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] soc: qcom: ipa: DMA helpers
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:33:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7eaef6a8-9d12-31bb-43fb-e710ad171c0f@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3Hur9Kn=QLrn7XDn-Kpgfta1xTxvuwcBze4n2v7fsULw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/7/18 6:17 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:33 AM Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> This patch includes code implementing the IPA DMA module, which
>> defines a structure to represent a DMA allocation for the IPA device.
>> It's used throughout the IPA code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
>
> I looked through all the users of this and couldn't fine one that actually
> benefits from it. I'd say better drop this patch entirely and open-code
> the contents in the callers. That will help readability since the dma
> API is well understood by many people.
Originally this was done to make it more obvious that all DMA allocations
were done with the same device pointer. Previously there were several
separate devices, and it wasn't very obvious that only one was used (and
required). Now that we're past that it's not difficult to do as you suggest.
I have now done that, and in the process identified a few more ways to
improve/simplify the code. The net result is that more lines of code
were removed than were present in "ipa_dma.[ch]". I see that as a
win (aside from your point below).
> Generally speaking, try not to wrap Linux interfaces into driver specific
> helper functions.
Agreed. Thanks a lot for your review.
-Alex
>
> Arnd
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-13 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-07 0:32 [RFC PATCH 00/12] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: add IPA bindings Alex Elder
2018-11-07 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-09 22:38 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-07 14:59 ` Rob Herring
2018-11-09 22:38 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-11 1:40 ` Rob Herring
2018-11-13 16:28 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] soc: qcom: ipa: DMA helpers Alex Elder
2018-11-07 12:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-13 16:33 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] soc: qcom: ipa: generic software interface Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] soc: qcom: ipa: immediate commands Alex Elder
2018-11-07 14:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-13 16:58 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA interrupts and the microcontroller Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] soc: qcom: ipa: QMI modem communication Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA register abstraction Alex Elder
2018-11-07 15:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-15 2:48 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-15 14:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] soc: qcom: ipa: utility functions Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] soc: qcom: ipa: main IPA source file Alex Elder
2018-11-07 14:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-15 3:11 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] soc: qcom: ipa: data path Alex Elder
2018-11-07 14:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-15 3:31 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-15 14:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA rmnet interface Alex Elder
2018-11-07 13:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-07 15:26 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-07 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] soc: qcom: ipa: build and "ipa_i.h" Alex Elder
2018-11-07 0:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-08 16:22 ` Alex Elder
2018-11-07 12:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-07 15:46 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver Arnd Bergmann
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