From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joelf@ti.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: add dma_get_slave_sg_limits()
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:14:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729064415.GF29095@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E83A9D.5020008@ti.com>
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:57:33PM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 12:08 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > As for the maximum number of scatterlist entries, really that's a bug in
> > the DMA engine implementations if they can't accept arbitary lengths.
> > I've created DMA engine drivers for implementations where you have to
> > program each segment individually, ones which can have the current and
> > next segments, as well as those which can walk a list. Provided you get
> > informed of a transfer being completed, there really is no reason for a
> > DMA engine driver to limit the number of scatterlist entries that it
> > will accept.
>
> Sure, that makes sense. Can you point to such a typical example
> implementation to get some ideas?
MXS MMC driver uses this: drivers/mmc/host/mxs-mmc.c
And dma engine driver for this is mxs-dma.c
~Vinod
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 16:46 [PATCH 0/3] Pending dmaengine patches Joel Fernandes
[not found] ` <1374166001-31340-1-git-send-email-joelf-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-18 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: add dma_get_slave_sg_limits() Joel Fernandes
2013-07-18 16:16 ` Vinod Koul
[not found] ` <20130718161658.GW16653-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-22 21:45 ` Joel Fernandes
[not found] ` <51EDA80F.7060606-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-23 6:41 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
[not found] ` <51EE25A4.7000609-Qo5EllUWu/uELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-23 6:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2013-07-18 17:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <20130718170825.GZ21614-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-18 18:57 ` Joel Fernandes
2013-07-29 6:44 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2013-07-18 16:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] mmc: omap_hsmmc: set max_segs based on dma engine limits Joel Fernandes
2013-07-18 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] dma: edma: add device_slave_sg_limits() support Joel Fernandes
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