Difference b/w xfer_len and len fields
Ian Lepore
ian at freebsd.org
Sat May 30 13:45:58 UTC 2015
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 11:26 +0530, Pratik Singhal wrote:
> What is the difference b/w the xfer_len and the len fields in the struct
> mmc_data in file sys/dev/mmc/mmcreg.h ?
>
> AFAIK , len is the length of the data present in mmc_data , what is
> xfer_len ?
>
The xfer_len field has historically been unused, until recently. When
the dwc mmc driver was added, it uses xfer_len as a driver-internal
variable to track how much of the overal work is done as the IO
proceeds.
-- Ian
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