From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank.Li@oss.nxp.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>, Yicong Hui <yiconghui@gmail.com>,
"open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
imx@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: ethernet: micrel: ks8842: use dmaengine_submit() instead of ->tx_submit()
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 17:11:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asZhHwzXU1sdk3TH@parshuram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007144334.GR83879@horms.kernel.org>
On 07-10-26, 15:43, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 03:30:19PM -0400, Frank.Li@oss.nxp.com wrote:
> > From: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
> >
> > Replace direct dma_async_tx_descriptor->tx_submit() calls with the
> > proper dmaengine_submit() API wrapper.
> >
> > Assisted-by: LLM
> > Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> Is there a back-story to this change?
> Is it part of something larger?
Yep, Frank has been fixing direct calls with wrappers with aim to
eventually start moving dmaengine guts internal and have a good
consumer/provider split of the engine and objects
> In face value it looks like a cleanup to an unmaintained driver.
> And if so, I'm not sure it's worth the churn.
--
~Vinod
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2026-10-02 19:30 Frank.Li
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