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Message-ID: <BAE9DCEF64577A439B3A37F36F9B691C03157788@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:25:12 -0700
From:	"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
To:	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	<neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <yur@...raft.com>,
	<saeed.bishara@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 1/3] async_tx: usage documentation and developernotes

>From: Williams, Dan J 
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:28 PM
>To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-raid@...r.kernel.org; 
>neilb@...e.de
>Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org; yur@...raft.com; 
>saeed.bishara@...il.com; Nelson, Shannon
>Subject: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 1/3] async_tx: usage documentation 
>and developernotes
>
>Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>---
>
> Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt |  217 
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Thanks, Dan.  In addition to Randy's most excellent nit-picking, here
are a couple more minor nits.

[...]
>+4.2 "My application needs finer control of hardware channels"
>+This requirement seems to arise from cases where a DMA engine 
>driver is
[...]
>+dma_async_client_chan_request triggers dmaeninge to notify 
>the client of

s/dmaeninge/dmaengine/

[...]
>+5 SOURCE
>+drivers/dma/dmaengine.c: offload engine channel management routines
>+drivers/dma/: location for offload engine drivers
>+crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c: async_tx interface to dmaengine 
>and common code
>+crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c: copy offload
>+crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c: memory fill offload
>+crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c: xor offload

Also include/linux/dmaengine.h


sln
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