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From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Zhang Wei-r63237" <Wei.Zhang@freescale.com>
Cc: "Wood Scott-B07421" <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	paulus@samba.org, shannon.nelson@intel.com,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add DMA engine driver for Freescale MPC85xxprocessors.
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:25:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9c3a7c20709130925s2234d652ne43bf44e204ac4e8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B96294322F7D458F9648B60E15112C85D8A5@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>

On 9/13/07, Zhang Wei-r63237 <Wei.Zhang@freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > +static void fsl_dma_set_src(dma_addr_t addr,
> > > +                           struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> > *tx, int index)
> > > +{
> >
> > What is index supposed to mean?  It's not used, or documented
> > anywhere than
> > I can see.
>
> I've also got more document here. Hi, Dan, could you give me some
> explanation about this API? :)
>
The index field gets used for multi-source (or multi-dest) operations.
 XOR, for example, is a multi-source operation.  I am preparing a
documentation patch.

[..]

--
Dan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07 10:54 [PATCH 5/5] Add DMA engine driver for Freescale MPC85xx processors Zhang Wei
2007-09-07 15:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 10:06   ` Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-09-11 14:20     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-07 16:00 ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-09-11 10:10   ` Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-09-11 14:20     ` Scott Wood
2007-09-11 15:15       ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-09-09 17:53 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-09 21:48   ` Timur Tabi
2007-09-09 22:10     ` Dan Williams
2007-09-11 10:30   ` Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-09-13 17:17     ` Dan Williams
     [not found] ` <20070907223553.GA18599@freescale.com>
2007-09-13 10:13   ` [PATCH 5/5] Add DMA engine driver for Freescale MPC85xxprocessors Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-09-13 14:49     ` Scott Wood
2007-09-13 16:25     ` Dan Williams [this message]

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