[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] dma: Add a PAUSE_RESUME capability

[Vinod Koul]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 13:42 +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Add a capability which allows dmaengine consumers to query whether a dmaengine
> controller supports the DMA_PAUSE and DMA_RESUME commands. Sometimes a user of
> the dmaengine API needs to know in advance if a channel will support
> pause/resume. E.g. in ALSA the information whether it is possible to
> pause/resume a audio stream or whether it is necessary to abort and restart the
> stream is communicated to userspace so it can act accordingly.
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the enum dma_transaction_type reports what kind of transactions DMA
controller is capable of. This is not for capabilities of a given
transaction type, so this approach is not right.

Unfortunately, this is not supported by dmaengine atm. We had discussed
this in last plumbers, and discussion with Matt was to add capability
API (at least for slave usages). The work from Matt had reached a good
point but unfortunately didn't reach its conclusion. [1]

Let me resurrect those patches and add the pause, resume query to it in
more generic way

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~Vinod

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2094891/