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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst | 1 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst index fbbb2831f29f..45953f171500 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst @@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ The details of these operations are: dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending. + .. note:: + + After calling ``dmaengine_submit()`` the submitted transfer descriptor + (``struct dma_async_tx_descriptor``) belongs to the DMA engine. + Consequently, the client must consider invalid the pointer to that + descriptor. + 5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst index 8d81f1a7169b..e78d070bb468 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ parameter, that specific channel is requested using the dmaengine and a thread is created with the existing parameters. This thread is set as pending and will be executed once run is set to 1. Any parameters set after the thread is created are not applied. + .. hint:: available channel list could be extracted by running the following command:: |