[PATCH 09/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Schedule tasklet in case of error interrupt

[Koul, Vinod]

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:24 +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 09:55 AM, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> > Yes that's the whole point, today callback mechanism doesn't tell the
> > _status_ of the transfer (which if we need change can be discussed as
> > well), but to counter argue I have never been able to generate the error
> > interrupt, are you able to do on your controller?
> 
> Yes, if we supply unaligned address, with access width as word, then it gives
> error interrupt.
> 
> Regarding your point of updating callback for reporting errors,
> I think it is required and should be a common issue.
Okay till now no one has asked for it. We can add to callback arguments
either a bool to indicate what is the transfer status or usual error
code to also indicate what type of failure.
I would prefer latter, if there is consensus on this, we can go thru
with this approach, Dan your comments?

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~Vinod