On 02-07-18, 15:08, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > 'cmd_pause' DMA channel capability means that respective DMA engine > supports both pausing and resuming given DMA channel. However, in some > cases it is important to know if DMA channel can be paused without the > need to resume it. This is a typical requirement for proper residue > reading on transfer timeout in UART drivers. There are also some DMA > engines with limited hardware, which doesn't really support resuming. > > Reporting pause and resume capabilities separately allows UART drivers to > properly check for the really required capabilities and operate in DMA > mode also in systems with limited DMA hardware. On the other hand drivers, > which rely on full channel suspend/resume support, should now check for > both 'pause' and 'resume' features. > > Existing clients of dma_get_slave_caps() have been checked and the only > driver which rely on proper channel resuming is soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm > driver, which has been updated to check the newly added capability. > Existing 'cmd_pause' now only indicates that DMA engine support pausing > given DMA channel. Applied after fixing the subsystem name, thanks -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
