[PATCH 11/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: max_bytes_per_lli is TRANSFER_SIZE * src_width (not MIN(width))

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jul 31 05:09:03 EDT 2011


On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 02:27:38AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/7/29 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>:
> 
> > max_bytes_per_lli = bd.srcbus.buswidth * PL080_CONTROL_TRANSFER_SIZE_MASK;
> > This is confirmed by ARM support guys.
> 
> Great and THANKS for your tiresome research in ironing out the ambiguities
> in the manuals.

The manual isn't that bad.  The code from ARM though is, and raises lots
of "why are they doing that?  oh, they must know better than the docs"
type questions.  Obviously they don't!



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