Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] dmaengine: Add STM32 DMAMUX driver

From: [email-masked] (Vinod Koul)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:01:57 +0530

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:38:02AM +0000, Pierre Yves MORDRET wrote:
> >>>> +
> >>>> +#ifndef __DMA_STM32_DMAMUX_H
> >>>> +#define __DMA_STM32_DMAMUX_H
> >>>> +
> >>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_STM32_DMAMUX)
> >>>> +int stm32_dmamux_set_config(struct device *dev, void *route_data, u32 chan_id);
> >>>
> >>> Why do we need a custom API in this case?
> >>>
> >>
> >> This API is called by DMA when a slave is requested by client. DMA can work
> >> without DMAMUX this API has been put in place to configure DMAMUX whether client
> >> is requesting a DMAMUX Channel instead of a DMA one.
> > 
> > You mean the dmaengine driver right?
> > 
> 
> Yes. The API is mainly called by "device_config" through out STM32 DMA Driver
> when a router is in place for client.
> Please refer to Patch 4/5 on this set.

Okay am thinking on why this can't be generic..? An optional router config
callback?

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~Vinod