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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-10-24 13:26:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-10-29 11:27:33 +0100 |
| commit | 3e2c159260eed10c44f0dd028c328a40a27ad235 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f88e68776147de335471a4f44d6f029dacab465 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h | |
| parent | f4feb8ac6e666d2ca37cf722166bbfadf2c6adf8 (diff) | |
iwlwifi: clarify NOCOPY/DUP documentation
Clarify the documentation to indicate that these
flags can only be used at the end, i.e. after them
a copy TFD (no flags set) is invalid.
Reported-by: Inbal Hacohen <inbal.hacohen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h index 76c52378f8f7..47bbe399c068 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h @@ -225,10 +225,13 @@ struct iwl_device_cmd { * ring. The transport layer doesn't map the command's buffer to DMA, but * rather copies it to an previously allocated DMA buffer. This flag tells * the transport layer not to copy the command, but to map the existing - * buffer. This can save memcpy and is worth with very big comamnds. + * buffer (that is passed in) instead. This saves the memcpy and allows + * commands that are bigger than the fixed buffer to be submitted. + * Note that a TFD entry after a NOCOPY one cannot be a normal copied one. * @IWL_HCMD_DFL_DUP: Only valid without NOCOPY, duplicate the memory for this * chunk internally and free it again after the command completes. This * can (currently) be used only once per command. + * Note that a TFD entry after a DUP one cannot be a normal copied one. */ enum iwl_hcmd_dataflag { IWL_HCMD_DFL_NOCOPY = BIT(0), |