On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:50:04 +0100 Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This function can be used to initiate a scatter-gather DMA transfer, > where the address and size of each segment is located in one entry of > the dma_vec array. > > The major difference with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is that it supports > specifying the lengths of each DMA transfer; as trying to override the > length of the transfer with dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() is a very tedious > process. The introduction of a new API function is also justified by the > fact that scatterlists are on their way out. > > Note that dmaengine_prep_interleaved_dma() is not helpful either in that > case, as it assumes that the address of each segment will be higher than > the one of the previous segment, which we just cannot guarantee in case > of a scatter-gather transfer. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This and the next patch look fine to me as clearly simplify things for our usecases, but they are really something for the dmaengine maintainers to comment on. Jonathan
