linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/28]: dmaengine: use DMA_COMPLETE for dma completion status

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdatoVFOOYru1RWPZTA6Q+mjO9kL7NLf=W803n4rF4Dz8g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:00:22 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28]: dmaengine: use DMA_COMPLETE for dma completion status

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote:

> As we recently discussed in [1], the DMA_SUCCESS is an misnomer. The dmaengine
> does not acknowledge that dma completed succesfully. It can only signal dma was
> completed by it. Hence we should use DMA_COMPLTE as status instead of
> DMA_SUCCESS
>
> [1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg278346.html

This make things more clear. The series:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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