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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] dma: Add a jz4740 dmaengine driver
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:29:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B60D0A.7040307@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A79E8F.4070209@metafoo.de>

On 05/30/2013 08:46 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>> +static int jz4740_dma_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *c)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct jz4740_dmaengine_chan *chan = to_jz4740_dma_chan(c);
>>> +
>>> +	chan->jz_chan = jz4740_dma_request(chan, NULL);
>>> +	if (!chan->jz_chan)
>>> +		return -EBUSY;
>>> +
>>> +	jz4740_dma_set_complete_cb(chan->jz_chan, jz4740_dma_complete_cb);
>>> +
>>> +	return 0;
>> Sorry, I didnt reply on this one. The API expects you to allocate a pool of
>> descriptors. These descriptors are to be used in .device_prep_xxx calls later.
> 
> The size of the descriptor is not fixed, so they can not be pre-allocated. And
> this is nothing new either, most of the more recently added dmaengine drivers
> allocate their descriptors on demand.

Vinod, are you ok with this explanation?

- Lars

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-10 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30 16:24 [PATCH 0/6] Convert JZ4740 to dmaengine Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] MIPS: jz4740: Correct clock gate bit for DMA controller Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] MIPS: jz4740: Acquire and enable DMA controller clock Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] dma: Add a jz4740 dmaengine driver Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 17:12   ` Vinod Koul
2013-05-30 18:46     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-06-10 17:29       ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2013-06-12  5:38         ` Vinod Koul
2013-06-12 12:07           ` [alsa-devel] " Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-06-21 10:51             ` Vinod Koul
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] MIPS: jz4740: Register jz4740 DMA device Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 17:24   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-10 17:30     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] ASoC: jz4740: Use the generic dmaengine PCM driver Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] MIPS: jz4740: Remove custom DMA API Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-05-30 17:20   ` Vinod Koul
2013-05-30 18:48     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-06-21 14:13 ` [PATCH 0/6] Convert JZ4740 to dmaengine Vinod Koul

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