From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/11] dmaengine: Introduce DMA-device device_caps callback
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:38:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714160830.GL34333@vkoul-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07d4a977-1de6-b611-3d4f-7c7d6cd7fe5f@intel.com>
On 13-07-20, 13:55, Dave Jiang wrote:
>
>
> On 7/10/2020 2:38 AM, Serge Semin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:45:03AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:45:44AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > > There are DMA devices (like ours version of Synopsys DW DMAC) which have
> > > > DMA capabilities non-uniformly redistributed between the device channels.
> > > > In order to provide a way of exposing the channel-specific parameters to
> > > > the DMA engine consumers, we introduce a new DMA-device callback. In case
> > > > if provided it gets called from the dma_get_slave_caps() method and is
> > > > able to override the generic DMA-device capabilities.
> > >
> >
> > > In light of recent developments consider not to add 'slave' and a such words to the kernel.
> >
> > As long as the 'slave' word is used in the name of the dma_slave_caps
> > structure and in the rest of the DMA-engine subsystem, it will be ambiguous
> > to use some else terminology. If renaming needs to be done, then it should be
> > done synchronously for the whole subsystem.
>
> What about just calling it dma_device_caps? Consider this is a useful
> function not only slave DMA will utilize this. I can see this being useful
> for some of my future code with idxd driver.
Some of the caps may make sense to generic dmaengine but few of them do
not :) While at it, am planning to make it dmaengine_periph_caps to
denote that these are dmaengine peripheral capabilities.
--
~Vinod
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-14 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 22:45 [PATCH RESEND v7 00/11] dmaengine: dw: Take Baikal-T1 SoC DW DMAC peculiarities into account Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] dt-bindings: dma: dw: Convert DW DMAC to DT binding Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] dt-bindings: dma: dw: Add max burst transaction length property Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] dmaengine: Introduce min burst length capability Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] dmaengine: Introduce max SG list entries capability Serge Semin
2020-07-10 8:31 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2020-07-10 9:27 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-10 11:51 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2020-07-10 16:14 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-15 11:13 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-15 17:08 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-17 8:14 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-17 12:36 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] dmaengine: Introduce DMA-device device_caps callback Serge Semin
2020-07-10 8:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-10 9:38 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-13 6:51 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-13 20:13 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-13 20:55 ` Dave Jiang
2020-07-14 16:08 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2020-07-14 16:18 ` Dave Jiang
2020-07-14 16:29 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-14 16:49 ` Dave Jiang
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] dmaengine: dw: Take HC_LLP flag into account for noLLP auto-config Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] dmaengine: dw: Set DMA device max segment size parameter Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 08/11] dmaengine: dw: Add dummy device_caps callback Serge Semin
2020-07-10 8:51 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-10 8:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-10 9:45 ` Serge Semin
2020-07-15 12:01 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] dmaengine: dw: Initialize min and max burst DMA device capability Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] dmaengine: dw: Introduce max burst length hw config Serge Semin
2020-07-09 22:45 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] dmaengine: dw: Initialize max_sg_nents capability Serge Semin
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