Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] soc: aspeed: xdma: Add reset ioctl

From: Andrew Jeffery
Date: Thu Jan 09 2020 - 00:58:04 EST




On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, at 05:57, Eddie James wrote:
> Users of the XDMA engine need a way to reset it if something goes wrong.
> Problems on the host side, or user error, such as incorrect host
> address, may result in the DMA operation never completing and no way to
> determine what went wrong. Therefore, add an ioctl to reset the engine
> so that users can recover in this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx>