linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x updates

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Message-ID: <4E329848.7070606@st.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:53:52 +0530
From:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"linus.walleij@...aro.org" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x updates

On 07/29/2011 04:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Ok, so lets have the driver explicitly enforce one SG entry if peripheral
> flow is set.  It would also be a good idea to pass not zero length, but
> the real transfer size in the SG entry for the sake of having the API
> know the full information about the transfer.

In my case, JPEG driver doesn't know how much data to transfer. So i have to
send zero from there. Also, i am not sure why would peripheral needs to be
flow controller if the peripherals driver already know how much to transfer?

> 
> (Ok, it already only supports one SG entry, but that's something else
> which needs fixing - which may be possible now that you've cleaned up
> the LLI creation code.)
> .

Yes. I cleaned it up.

-- 
viresh
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