fsl_dma_update_pointers(9)

💅 fsl_dma_update_pointers 💅

okay so this is the fsl_dma_update_pointers(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and we're about to make LD pointers make sense, bestie 🫶✨

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✨ NAME ✨

• fsl_dma_update_pointers — update LD pointers to point to the next period 💫

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

void fsl_dma_update_pointers (struct fsl_dma_private *dma_private );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dma_private — the page literally gives us -- undescribed -- for this one, so yeah, that's the whole description 🙈😭

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

As each period is completed, this function changes the link descriptor pointers for that period to point to the next period. slay, that's the whole vibe check ✅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file: ./sound/soc/fsl/fsl_dma.c
• fsl_dma_abort_stream(9)
• fsl_dma_isr(9)
• fsl_dma_new(9)
• fsl_dma_open(9)
• fsl_dma_hw_params(9)
• fsl_dma_pointer(9)
• fsl_dma_hw_free(9)
• fsl_dma_close(9)
• find_ssi_node(9)

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this was fsl_dma_update_pointers(9), signing off from ./sound/soc/fsl, October 2026 💖🎀