[PATCH v4 08/12] soc: aspeed: xdma: Add reset ioctl

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Thu Jan 9 16:59:57 AEDT 2020



On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, at 05:57, Eddie James wrote:
> Users of the XDMA engine need a way to reset it if something goes wrong.
> Problems on the host side, or user error, such as incorrect host
> address, may result in the DMA operation never completing and no way to
> determine what went wrong. Therefore, add an ioctl to reset the engine
> so that users can recover in this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>


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