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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:15:07PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:57:53AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > It's got something to do with the async engine API, and seems to be
> > > something to do with whether a descriptor can have other transactions
> > > added to it, and whether a descriptor can be re-used (async-tx engines
> > > typically allocate a fixed set of descriptors and recycle them.)
> > Yes this is my understanding too. Async API IIUC can reuse descriptors and
> > if engine doesnt support this is a way to tell them please do use that.
> >
> > For slave dmanegine API we need to ignore it.
>
> We shouldn't ignore it - ignoring it makes it harder to implement a DMA
> engine driver which supports both the slave and async APIs, because
> we then need to know the reason for the channel being requested.
Do you have such usage coming up near future :)
>
> Ignoring it until it can be understood and documented is an approach I
> would agree with though.
Certainly, I am asking Dan to add more clarity on these bits to help
improve.

--
~Vinod


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