[PATCH 3/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Actually write the runtime configuration to registers

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Apr 9 15:07:16 EDT 2013


On Tue, 09 Apr 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Someone has spent a fair amount of effort writing a runtime configuration
> > changing algorithm for DMA clients. However, the config appears to never
> > actually make it to hardware. In order for the configuration to take hold
> > we need to issue a d40_config_write(), as this is the routine which writes
> > it into the hardware's registers.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> 
> So this makes the runtime_addr selection work I suppose, but the
> runtime_direction still isn't used anywhere, correct?

Yes, I have this on my TODO to speak with Linus, as he was the one who
mainlined it.

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