Re: [PATCH v3 05/10] dmaengine: Introduce DMA-device device_caps callback

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 10:43:00 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 01:50:16AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> There are DMA devices (like ours version of Synopsys DW DMAC) which have
> DMA capabilities non-uniformly redistributed amongst the device channels.
> In order to provide a way of exposing the channel-specific parameters to
> the DMA engine consumers, we introduce a new DMA-device callback. In case
> if provided it gets called from the dma_get_slave_caps() method and is
> able to override the generic DMA-device capabilities.

> + if (device->device_caps)
> + device->device_caps(chan, caps);
> +
> return 0;

I dunno why this returns int, but either we get rid of this returned value
(perhaps in the future, b/c it's not directly related to this series), or
something like

if (device->device_caps)
return device->device_caps(chan, caps);

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko