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@@ -111,40 +111,36 @@ The first thing you need to do in your driver is to allocate this
structure. Any of the usual memory allocators will do, but you'll also
need to initialize a few fields in there:
-- channels: should be initialized as a list using the
+- ``channels``: should be initialized as a list using the
INIT_LIST_HEAD macro for example
-- src_addr_widths:
+- ``src_addr_widths``:
should contain a bitmask of the supported source transfer width
-- dst_addr_widths:
+- ``dst_addr_widths``:
should contain a bitmask of the supported destination transfer width
-- directions:
+- ``directions``:
should contain a bitmask of the supported slave directions
(i.e. excluding mem2mem transfers)
-- residue_granularity:
+- ``residue_granularity``:
+ granularity of the transfer residue reported to dma_set_residue.
+ This can be either:
- - Granularity of the transfer residue reported to dma_set_residue.
- This can be either:
+ - Descriptor:
+ your device doesn't support any kind of residue
+ reporting. The framework will only know that a particular
+ transaction descriptor is done.
- - Descriptor
+ - Segment:
+ your device is able to report which chunks have been transferred
- - Your device doesn't support any kind of residue
- reporting. The framework will only know that a particular
- transaction descriptor is done.
+ - Burst:
+ your device is able to report which burst have been transferred
- - Segment
-
- - Your device is able to report which chunks have been transferred
-
- - Burst
-
- - Your device is able to report which burst have been transferred
-
- - dev: should hold the pointer to the ``struct device`` associated
- to your current driver instance.
+- ``dev``: should hold the pointer to the ``struct device`` associated
+ to your current driver instance.
Supported transaction types
---------------------------