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| author |  John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| 2012-02-15 16:24:37 -0500 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| 2012-02-15 16:24:37 -0500 |
| commit | ca994a36f585432458ead9133fcfe05440edbb7b (patch) | |
| tree | be05512153a9cd5cbe1f1234bc09fd9cd388ec58 /Documentation/dmaengine.txt | |
| parent | rtlwifi: Modify rtl_pci_init to return 0 on success (diff) | |
| parent | ath9k: stop on rates with idx -1 in ath9k rate control's .tx_status (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
net/mac80211/sta_info.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dmaengine.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt index 94b7e0f96b38..bbe6cb3d1856 100644 --- a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt +++ b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ The slave DMA usage consists of following steps: slave_sg - DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral dma_cyclic - Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the operation is explicitly stopped. + interleaved_dma - This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave + address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver. + Various types of operations could be expressed by setting + appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members. A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for the given transaction. @@ -89,6 +93,10 @@ The slave DMA usage consists of following steps: struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len, size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction); + struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_interleaved_dma)( + struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt, + unsigned long flags); + The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for the DMA operation prior to calling device_prep_slave_sg, and must keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed. |