From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:46:58 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: add dma_get_slave_sg_limits() In-Reply-To: <1374166001-31340-2-git-send-email-joelf@ti.com> References: <1374166001-31340-1-git-send-email-joelf@ti.com> <1374166001-31340-2-git-send-email-joelf@ti.com> Message-ID: <20130718161658.GW16653@intel.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:46:39AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > From: Matt Porter > > Add a dmaengine API to retrieve slave SG transfer limits. > > The API is optionally implemented by dmaengine drivers and when > unimplemented will return a NULL pointer. A client driver using > this API provides the required dma channel, address width, and > burst size of the transfer. dma_get_slave_sg_limits() returns an > SG limits structure with the maximum number and size of SG segments > that the given channel can handle. Hi Joel, I have already resurrected this and generalized the API to get the slave capablities. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/147 Please start using this API ~Vinod