Re: [PATCH 01/28] dmaengine: use DMA_COMPLETE for dma completion status

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 14:45:54 EST


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
<g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Vinod Koul wrote:
>
>> the DMA_SUCCESS is a misnomer as dmaengine indicates the transfer is complete and
>> gives no guarantee of the transfer success. Hence we should use DMA_COMPLTE
>> instead of DMA_SUCCESS
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 2 +-
>> include/linux/dmaengine.h | 12 ++++++------
>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
>> index 9162ac8..81d8765 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
>> @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ dma_wait_for_async_tx(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
>> unsigned long dma_sync_wait_timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(5000);
>>
>> if (!tx)
>> - return DMA_SUCCESS;
>> + return DMA_COMPLETE;
>>
>> while (tx->cookie == -EBUSY) {
>> if (time_after_eq(jiffies, dma_sync_wait_timeout)) {
>> diff --git a/include/linux/dmaengine.h b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
>> index 0bc7275..4b460a6 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/dmaengine.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
>> @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ static inline int dma_submit_error(dma_cookie_t cookie)
>>
>> /**
>> * enum dma_status - DMA transaction status
>> - * @DMA_SUCCESS: transaction completed successfully
>> + * @DMA_COMPLETE: transaction completed
>> * @DMA_IN_PROGRESS: transaction not yet processed
>> * @DMA_PAUSED: transaction is paused
>> * @DMA_ERROR: transaction failed
>> */
>> enum dma_status {
>> - DMA_SUCCESS,
>> + DMA_COMPLETE,
>> DMA_IN_PROGRESS,
>> DMA_PAUSED,
>> DMA_ERROR,
>
> Doesn't this break kernel compilation for a total of 27 commits? Or am I
> missing anything?

Yes, I think at the start DMA_COMPLETE should just be a alias for
DMA_SUCCESS, then after all the driver renames are in delete
DMA_SUCCESS.
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