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Merge branch 'net-axienet-introduce-dmaengine'

Radhey Shyam Pandey says:

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net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine

The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate
with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind
this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine
driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the
ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes
it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA
without any modification.

The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during
the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further
enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases.

Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
features are very welcome!

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
[2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c#L238
[3]: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/00367.html
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221124102745.2620370-1-sarath.babu.naidu.gaddam@amd.com
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1700074613-1977070-1-git-send-email-radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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