Re: [PATCH] [RFC] dmaengine: add fifo_size member

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 29/07/2019 07:10, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 23-07-19, 11:24, Sameer Pujar wrote:
>>
>> On 7/19/2019 10:34 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> On 05-07-19, 11:45, Sameer Pujar wrote:
>>>> Hi Vinod,
>>>>
>>>> What are your final thoughts regarding this?
>>> Hi sameer,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay in replying
>>>
>>> On this, I am inclined to think that dma driver should not be involved.
>>> The ADMAIF needs this configuration and we should take the path of
>>> dma_router for this piece and add features like this to it
>>
>> Hi Vinod,
>>
>> The configuration is needed by both ADMA and ADMAIF. The size is
>> configurable
>> on ADMAIF side. ADMA needs to know this info and program accordingly.
> 
> Well I would say client decides the settings for both DMA, DMAIF and
> sets the peripheral accordingly as well, so client communicates the two
> sets of info to two set of drivers

That maybe, but I still don't see how the information is passed from the
client in the first place. The current problem is that there is no means
to pass both a max-burst size and fifo-size to the DMA driver from the
client.

IMO there needs to be a way to pass vendor specific DMA configuration
(if this information is not common) otherwise we just end up in a
scenario like there is for the xilinx DMA driver
(include/linux/dma/xilinx_dma.h) that has a custom API for passing this
information.

Cheers
Jon

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