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authorSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2019-04-10 15:50:49 -0400
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Finally have a reason for a backmerge other than "it's been a while"! Backmerging drm-next to -misc-next to facilitate Rob Herring's work on Panfrost. Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
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@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ The details of these operations are:
dmaengine_submit() will not start the DMA operation, it merely adds
it to the pending queue. For this, see step 5, dma_async_issue_pending.
+ .. note::
+
+ After calling ``dmaengine_submit()`` the submitted transfer descriptor
+ (``struct dma_async_tx_descriptor``) belongs to the DMA engine.
+ Consequently, the client must consider invalid the pointer to that
+ descriptor.
+
5. Issue pending DMA requests and wait for callback notification
The transactions in the pending queue can be activated by calling the
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