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docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC_TX capability

This patch replaces the TODO for DMA_ASYNC_TX in the DMA engine
provider documentation. The flag is automatically set by the DMA
framework when a device supports key asynchronous memory-to-memory
operations such as memcpy, memset, xor, pq, xor_val, and pq_val.

It must not be set by drivers directly.

Signed-off-by: Kendra Moore <kendra.j.moore3443@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250421010205.84719-1-kendra.j.moore3443@gmail.com>

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Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/provider.rst
··· 217 217 218 218 - DMA_ASYNC_TX 219 219 220 - - Must not be set by the device, and will be set by the framework 221 - if needed 220 + - The device supports asynchronous memory-to-memory operations, 221 + including memcpy, memset, xor, pq, xor_val, and pq_val. 222 222 223 - - TODO: What is it about? 223 + - This capability is automatically set by the DMA engine 224 + framework and must not be configured manually by device 225 + drivers. 224 226 225 227 - DMA_SLAVE 226 228