Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma: Add interface to calculate data transferred

Shevchenko, Andriy
2013-10-16T09:13:45Z

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On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:27 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:06:30PM +0530, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 11:08 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:

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> > > Well am going to take it a bit further and ask you why do we need the
> > > /sys/class/dma? I have never used it for slave work.
> >
> > How user (who, f.e., would like to run dmatest) will know names of the
> > channels provided?
> Ok dmatest requires this, I overlooked that part
>
> > How could we see what channels of certain dma controller are requested /
> > busy from userspace?
> But do end user care or need to know about this?

The idea is to have some test cases. So, end user probably doesn't
really need this.

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