[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] dmadev: add device idle check for testing use

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 08:54:11PM +0800, fengchengwen wrote:
> When some hardware is faulty, the error code cannot be set, and it just stops working.
> In addition, interrupts are generally not enabled. Therefore, for such hardware, the
> framework needs to have a mechanism to transmit the status so that applications can
> sense the status.
> 
> So how about extend vchan_idle to vchan_status, include: idle, running, error-stop ?
> 

We can look at changing that. By "idle" I originally meant "non-active",
meaning that it's either halted or idle, but I think we can separate out
those two into separate items like you suggest.

/Bruce