Re: [PATCH v7 05/11] dmaengine: Introduce DMA-device device_caps callback

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jul 10 2020 - 04:45:09 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:45:44AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> There are DMA devices (like ours version of Synopsys DW DMAC) which have
> DMA capabilities non-uniformly redistributed between 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.

In light of recent developments consider not to add 'slave' and a such words to the kernel.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko