linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC

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Message-ID: <871pt1x4jp.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 07:16:42 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: kendrajmoore <kendra.j.moore3443@...il.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Cc: vkoul@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kendra Moore <kendra.j.moore3443@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC_TX
 capability

kendrajmoore <kendra.j.moore3443@...il.com> writes:

> From: Kendra Moore <kendra.j.moore3443@...il.com>
>
> This patch replaces the TODO for DMA_ASYNC_TX in the DMA engine
> provider documentation. The flag is automatically set by the DMA
> framework when a device supports key asynchronous memory-to-memory
> operations such as memcpy, memset, xor, pq, xor_val, and pq_val.
>
> It must not be set by drivers directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kendra Moore <kendra.j.moore3443@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.