Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma: tegra: fix residual calculation for cycliccase

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Fri Jul 13 2012 - 02:29:06 EST


On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 11:09 +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2012 08:45 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 10:02 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 07/02/2012 02:22 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> >>> In cyclic mode of DMA, the byte transferred can be more
> >>> than the requested size and in this case, calculating
> >>> residuals based on the current position of DMA transfer to
> >>> bytes requested i.e. bytes required to transfer to reach
> >>> bytes requested from current DMA position.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan<ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> This makes sense to me, although I wonder if details like this aren't
> >> something that the dmaengine core should be handling.
> > No core doesn't know anything about the how much you are transferring
> > and where you are. That is the driver to calculate and provide.
>
> Just for confirmation, are you going to apply this patch or do I need to
> do anything here.
???

You didnt get my other mail about applying?

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~Vinod

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