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From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:36:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140730160607.GM8181@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406736193-26685-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 06:03:13PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The dmaengine is neither trivial nor properly documented at the moment, which
> means a lot of trial and error development, which is not that good for such a
> central piece of the system.
> 
> Attempt at making such a documentation.

Did you miss Documentation/dmaengine.txt, lots of this is already covered
there. But yes i would be really glad to know what isnt, so that we can fix
that.

> +  * device_slave_caps
> +    - Isn't that redundant with the cap_mask already?
> +    - Only a few drivers seem to implement it
For audio to know what your channel can do rather than hardcoding it

> +
> +  * dma cookies?
cookie is dma transaction representation which is monotonically incrementing
number.

-- 
~Vinod

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	"Russell King" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Antoine Ténart" <antoine@free-electrons.com>,
	"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas@free-electrons.com>,
	"Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	"Boris Brezillon" <boris@free-electrons.com>,
	"Matt Porter" <matt.porter@linaro.org>,
	laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, ludovic.desroches@atmel.com,
	"Gregory Clement" <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
	"Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:36:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140730160607.GM8181@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406736193-26685-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 06:03:13PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The dmaengine is neither trivial nor properly documented at the moment, which
> means a lot of trial and error development, which is not that good for such a
> central piece of the system.
> 
> Attempt at making such a documentation.

Did you miss Documentation/dmaengine.txt, lots of this is already covered
there. But yes i would be really glad to know what isnt, so that we can fix
that.

> +  * device_slave_caps
> +    - Isn't that redundant with the cap_mask already?
> +    - Only a few drivers seem to implement it
For audio to know what your channel can do rather than hardcoding it

> +
> +  * dma cookies?
cookie is dma transaction representation which is monotonically incrementing
number.

-- 
~Vinod

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-30 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-30 16:03 [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Add a documentation for the dma controller API Maxime Ripard
2014-07-30 16:03 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-30 16:06 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2014-07-30 16:06   ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31  7:44   ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31  7:44     ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 11:56     ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 11:56       ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 16:23       ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 16:23         ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:13         ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-01 17:13           ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-02 14:49           ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 14:49             ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:17             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 15:17               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 19:06               ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 19:06                 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-05 16:25             ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-05 16:25               ` Vinod Koul
2014-07-31 12:44     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 12:44       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 16:13       ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 16:13         ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 16:54         ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 16:54           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 17:37           ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 17:37             ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01  8:00             ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-01  8:00               ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-01  8:57               ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01  8:57                 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:15                 ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-01 17:15                   ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-01 18:09                   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-01 18:09                     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-02 15:13                     ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:13                       ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-04  7:16                       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-08-04  7:16                         ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-31 13:22     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-31 13:22       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-31 16:41       ` Maxime Ripard
2014-07-31 16:41         ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 14:53         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-01 14:53           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 15:11           ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:11             ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 15:29             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 15:29               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02 19:05               ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-02 19:05                 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-08-01 17:22       ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-01 17:22         ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-05  8:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-05  8:16   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-14  8:53 ` Ludovic Desroches
2014-08-14  8:53   ` Ludovic Desroches
2014-08-14  8:57   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-14  8:57     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-19 13:45     ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-19 13:45       ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-19 14:44       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-19 14:44         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-19 14:57         ` Vinod Koul
2014-08-19 14:57           ` Vinod Koul

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