Re: [PATCH] doc:dmaengine: clarify DMA desc. pointer after submission

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 06:54:22 EST


On 08-02-19, 16:30, Federico Vaga wrote:
> It clarifies that the DMA description pointer returned by
> `dmaengine_prep_*` function should not be used after submission.
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
> index fbbb2831f29f..d728e50105eb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
> @@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ The details of these operations are:
> dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds
> it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending.
>
> + .. note::
> +
> + After calling ``dmaengine_submit()`` the submitted transfer descriptor
> + (``struct dma_async_tx_descriptor``) belongs to the DMA engine.
> + Consequentially, the client must consider invalid the pointer to that

Consequently

> + descriptor.
> +

Applied after fixing the typo and added tag as Documentation: dmaengine...

> 5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification
>
> The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the
> --
> 2.15.0

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~Vinod