configure_dma(9)

🌸 configure_dma(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🌸

okay so you found the configure_dma page in the Kernel API Manual and you're probably like "what is this, why is it here" — don't worry, we're gonna get through it together, it's actually so chill. it's giving "small but important," fr fr.

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✨ NAME ✨

configure_dma — literally just configures the channels for the next transfer. that's it. that's the whole job. icon behaviour honestly 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int configure_dma (struct pl022 *pl022 );

look at her. one argument, returns an int. lowkey elegant, ngl.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pl022 — the SSP driver's private data structure. that's your whole personality for this function, bestie, she holds everything 🫶

no cap, that's the only argument. i checked twice so you don't have to 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay this is the part where the page goes full group-chat-tagging-everyone mode, so buckle up 🌈

• the kernel file ./drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c — that's home base, the main character file 👑
• struct vendor_data(9)
• struct pl022(9)
• struct chip_data(9)
• internal_cs_control(9)
• flush(9)
• restore_state(9)
• load_ssp_default_config(9)
• pl022_interrupt_handler(9)
• pl022_setup(9)
• pl022_cleanup(9)

like i said — everyone got tagged. read them all if you wanna understand the whole pl022 saga, iykyk 📚✨

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aaaand that's the page!! short, sweet, ate and left no crumbs 🔥

💜 cute little sign-off: this one lives in ./drivers/spi, dated October 2026, and its manual name is configure_dma(9) — okay bye love u, go configure some channels 💅🎀