[PATCH v6 1/9] i2c: add a message flag for DMA safe buffers

[Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>]

I2C has no requirement that the buffer of a message needs to be DMA
safe. In case it is, it can now be flagged, so drivers wishing to
do DMA can use the buffer directly.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/i2c.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/i2c.h b/include/uapi/linux/i2c.h
index 009e27bb9abe19..1c683cb319e4b7 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/i2c.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/i2c.h
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ struct i2c_msg {
 #define I2C_M_RD		0x0001	/* read data, from slave to master */
 					/* I2C_M_RD is guaranteed to be 0x0001! */
 #define I2C_M_TEN		0x0010	/* this is a ten bit chip address */
+#define I2C_M_DMA_SAFE		0x0200	/* the buffer of this message is DMA safe */
+					/* makes only sense in kernelspace */
+					/* userspace buffers are copied anyway */
 #define I2C_M_RECV_LEN		0x0400	/* length will be first received byte */
 #define I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK		0x0800	/* if I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING */
 #define I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK	0x1000	/* if I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING */
-- 
2.11.0