Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] dma: tegra: avoid int overflow for transferred count

[Stephen Warren]

On 05/06/2014 03:22 PM, Christopher Freeman wrote:
> bytes_transferred will overflow during long audio playbacks.  Since
> the driver only ever consults this value modulo bytes_requested, store the
> value modulo bytes_requested.

The audio driver may only interpret the value modulo bytes_requested,
but what about other drivers such as the high-speed UART (and SPI?) drivers?

What is the dmaengine API's design requirement here, and what do other
dmaengine drivers do. If it's to store the modulo, then I'm fine with
this change.
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