diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/men-chameleon-bus.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/men-chameleon-bus.rst index 1b1f048aa748..6f0b9ee47595 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/men-chameleon-bus.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/men-chameleon-bus.rst @@ -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 */