Re: [PATCH 08/19] dmaengine: enable multiple clients and operations

    Jeff> Are we really going to add a set of hooks for each DMA
    Jeff> engine whizbang feature?

    Dan> What's the alternative?  But, also see patch 9 "dmaengine:
    Dan> reduce backend address permutations" it relieves some of this
    Dan> pain.

I guess you can pass an opcode into a common "start operation" function.

With all the memcpy / xor / crypto / etc. hardware out there already,
we definitely have to get this interface right.

 - R.
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