[PATCH v5 1/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Check for channel idle state before submitting dma descriptor
Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
appana.durga.rao at xilinx.com
Thu Jan 12 20:28:11 PST 2017
Hi Vinod,
Thanks for the review...
>
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 12:15:28PM +0530, Kedareswara rao Appana wrote:
> > Add channel idle state to ensure that dma descriptor is not
> > submitted when VDMA engine is in progress.
>
> any reason why you want to make your own varible and not use the HW to
> query
> as done earlier. It is not clear to me why that is removed from description
We need to poll for a bit in the status register to know the dma state.
We are currently doing that in the driver hot path
To avoid this using own variables.
Regards,
Kedar.
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