On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 3:52 AM, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > > Descriptor-based vs. register-based transfers sounds like something the > > > DMA engine driver is free to decide on its own. > > > > Not entirely. The current interface has "dma_async_tx_descriptor" > > wired pretty thoroughly into the call structure -- hard to avoid. > > (And where's the "dma_async_rx_descriptor", since that's only TX?? > > Asymmetry like that is usually not a healthy sign.) The engine is > > not free to avoid those descriptors ... > > > > For better or worse I picked async_tx to represent "asynchronous > transfers/transforms", not "transmit".
"dma_async_descriptor" would not be misleading. :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
