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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:42:36 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kfifo: add DMA capabilities
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:29 +0100
Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:

> As requested by Shargorodsky Atal:
> 
> This patch adds functions for DMA handling to the new kfifo API. 
> 
> To prepare a DMA one of the kfifo_dma_..._prepare() Funktions must be
> called. This results in a scatterlist structure which can passed to the
> kernel DMA functions.

Looks good to me - the tty buffering has similar functions to some bits
of this for the same reasons.

Alan