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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] dma: pl330: improve status checking
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 09:25:53AM +0100, Robert Baldyga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series allows to check DMA transfer residue (number of bytes left
> to send/receive) by modifying pl330_tx_status() function, when struct
> dma_tx_state is filled with needed data. It also introduces DMA_PAUSE
> feature, which allows to halt DMA transfer before termination and read
> residue without risk of data loss.
>
> This features are needed for proper implementation of DMA transfers,
> particulary for serial drivers when transfer sizes are unknown and
> requests on DMA channels are terminated before transfer completion
> very ofter (it's becouse we terminate then in timeout interrupt to
> avoid latency which is usually undesirable).
Applied, thanks

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~Vinod



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