xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop(9). yes the function and the manual have the exact same name, that's just how kernel docs roll, iconic behavior honestly ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop — Stop the channel. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🛑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop (struct xilinx_dpdma_chan *chan );

like, it takes your channel and returns an int, classic 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • chan — the DPDMA channel, aka the main character of this whole operation 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍓: this one stops a channel that you previously paused. and it does it in two steps, in order, no skipping:

  1. first it waits for completion of all outstanding transactions — yes, it's gonna sit there and let everything finish, patient queen behavior 🧚
  2. then it disables the channel — done, closed, periodt 💀
⚠️ key detail bestie: this is for a channel that was already paused. don't come in here expecting it to pause things for you, that's a whole different function, iykyk 🙈

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • 0 on success — slay, we love a clean return 🎀
  • -ETIMEDOUT if the channel failed to stop — literally the channel ghosting you 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the file this whole thing lives in: Kernel file ./drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dpdma.c 📁

and now the friend group, aka every related entry, no cap, all of them:

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🫶

sign-off szn: this masterpiece came from the source ./drivers/dma/xilinx, dated October 2026, and it's the xilinx_dpdma_chan_stop(9) page of the Kernel API Manual 💜 go forth and stop some channels, but like, responsibly ⭐

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