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authorVinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>2014-12-07 23:18:01 +0530
committerVinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>2014-12-22 12:34:22 +0530
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Documentation: dmaengine: clarify dma_slave_config expectations
dma_slave_config is expected to be set for slave operations Only, not for memcpy ones Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ supported.
- Even though that structure contains a direction field, this
field is deprecated in favor of the direction argument given to
the prep_* functions
+ - This call is mandatory for slave operations only. This should NOT be
+ set or expected to be set for memcpy operations.
+ If a driver support both, it should use this call for slave
+ operations only and not for memcpy ones.
* device_pause
- Pauses a transfer on the channel