Documentation: document dma device use for mcb
authorJohannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:35:25 +0000 (00:35 +0900)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:26:13 +0000 (13:26 -0700)
Hannes reported a problem with setting up dma transfers on a mcb device.
The problem boiled down to the use of a wrong 'device' for the dma
functions.

Document how to setup dma transfers for a IP core on a mcb carrier.

Reported-by: Hannes Duerr <Hannes.Duerr@duagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3bdc8f76b30c2b0e2a2bfab06c2e73797ddc9384.1608305690.git.johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/driver-api/men-chameleon-bus.rst

index 1b1f048aa7483d6cd5c105e219c2e9f1d1e78878..6f0b9ee4759503b15aecbd8c75cc41a917d162a7 100644 (file)
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ MEN Chameleon Bus
        4.1 The driver structure
        4.2 Probing and attaching
        4.3 Initializing the driver
+       4.4 Using DMA
 
 
 Introduction
@@ -173,3 +174,14 @@ module at the MCB core::
 The module_mcb_driver() macro can be used to reduce the above code::
 
        module_mcb_driver(foo_driver);
+
+Using DMA
+---------
+
+To make use of the kernel's DMA-API's function, you will need to use the
+carrier device's 'struct device'. Fortunately 'struct mcb_device' embeds a
+pointer (->dma_dev) to the carrier's device for DMA purposes::
+
+        ret = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(&mdev->dma_dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(dma_bits));
+        if (rc)
+                /* Handle errors */