RE: [PATCH V7 0/6] i2c: qup: Add support for v2 tags and bam dma

From: Sricharan
Date: Thu Jan 28 2016 - 00:28:59 EST


Hi Wolfram,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-arm-kernel [mailto:linux-arm-kernel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfram Sang
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 5:03 PM
> To: Sricharan
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; architt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-
> msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ntelkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; agross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; dmaengine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; iivanov@xxxxxxxxxx; galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 0/6] i2c: qup: Add support for v2 tags and bam dma
>
> > > Sricharan R (6):
> > > i2c: qup: Change qup_wait_writeready function to use for all
timeouts
> > > i2c: qup: Add V2 tags support
> > > i2c: qup: Transfer each i2c_msg in i2c_msgs without a stop bit
> > > i2c: qup: Add bam dma capabilities
> > > dts: msm8974: Add blsp2_bam dma node
> > > dts: msm8974: Add dma channels for blsp2_i2c1 node
> > >
> > Wolfram, Does the first 4 patches looks good to be picked up ?
>
> Except for patch 3 (I replied seperately), the rest looks okay to me. I
> wondered a little if it would make sense to make a new driver for v2 +
DMA,
> because the additions were quite massive. But I'll leave it up to you if
there is
> enough shared code between the two versions, so that a single driver will
be
> better.
Hmm, addition of V2 reused code, more than 50% addition of new loc in
this series, lot of it from DMA,
but at this point it feels ok to have it in a single driver.

Regards,
Sricharan