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[1/3] Documentation: dmaengine: fix the DMA_CTRL_ACK documentation

Message ID 1437676792-13465-1-git-send-email-vinod.koul@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
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Vinod Koul July 23, 2015, 6:39 p.m. UTC
As discussed recently the meaning of DMA_CTRL_ACK is that a desc cannot be
reused by provider until the client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a
chance to establish any dependency chains. So update documentation

Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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 Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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Robert Jarzmik July 23, 2015, 7:48 p.m. UTC | #1
Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> writes:

> +    - If clear, the descriptor cannot be reused by provider untill the
Nitpick: s/untill/until
> +      client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any
> +      dependency chains
> +    - This can be acked by invoking async_tx_ack()
> +    - If set, does not mean descriptor can be reused

Apart from that :
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>

Cheers.
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diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
index ca67b0f04c6e..8b8eb7c57c1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
@@ -345,12 +345,12 @@  where to put them)
       that abstracts it away.
 
   * DMA_CTRL_ACK
-    - If set, the transfer can be reused after being completed.
-    - There is a guarantee the transfer won't be freed until it is acked
-      by async_tx_ack().
-    - As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the dma_map_sg() and
-      dma_unmap_sg() in between 2 transfers, because the DMA'd data wasn't used,
-      it can resubmit the transfer right after its completion.
+    - If clear, the descriptor cannot be reused by provider untill the
+      client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any
+      dependency chains
+    - This can be acked by invoking async_tx_ack()
+    - If set, does not mean descriptor can be reused
+
 
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