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

[Vinod Koul]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:13:20AM +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> > 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:
> > 
> > []
> > 
> > > > > 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.
> 
> So could this just be debugfs files instead?
Yes I was thinking on same lines and would agree with you on that. This _really_
doesn't need sysfs unless Dan some async usage dependent on it. While at it we
can review the fields and remove the ones which are not required...

Dan, let me know if you are okay with it, I will try to get that done over the
weekend...

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~Vinod
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