Re: [PATCH] kfifo: add DMA capabilities

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 08:42:13 EST


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:29 +0100
Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As requested by Shargorodsky Atal:
>
> This patch adds functions for DMA handling to the new kfifo API.
>
> To prepare a DMA one of the kfifo_dma_..._prepare() Funktions must be
> called. This results in a scatterlist structure which can passed to the
> kernel DMA functions.

Looks good to me - the tty buffering has similar functions to some bits
of this for the same reasons.

Alan
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