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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 17:11:27 +0200
From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: ethernet: micrel: ks8842: use
 dmaengine_submit() instead of ->tx_submit()
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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