Commit 06f10e2f authored by Vinod Koul's avatar Vinod Koul

Documentation: dmaengine: fix the DMA_CTRL_ACK documentation

As discussed recently the meaning of DMA_CTRL_ACK is that a desc cannot be
reused by provider until the client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a
chance to establish any dependency chains. So update documentation
Signed-off-by: default avatarVinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRobert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
parent 09659a59
...@@ -345,12 +345,12 @@ where to put them) ...@@ -345,12 +345,12 @@ where to put them)
that abstracts it away. that abstracts it away.
* DMA_CTRL_ACK * DMA_CTRL_ACK
- If set, the transfer can be reused after being completed. - If clear, the descriptor cannot be reused by provider until the
- There is a guarantee the transfer won't be freed until it is acked client acknowledges receipt, i.e. has has a chance to establish any
by async_tx_ack(). dependency chains
- As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the dma_map_sg() and - This can be acked by invoking async_tx_ack()
dma_unmap_sg() in between 2 transfers, because the DMA'd data wasn't used, - If set, does not mean descriptor can be reused
it can resubmit the transfer right after its completion.
General Design Notes General Design Notes
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