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Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished

From Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished
Date 2016-12-08 16:40 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:44:53AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:45:58PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:14:20PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> That's not going to work very well.  Device drivers typically request
> >> >> dma channels in their probe functions or when the device is opened.
> >> >> This means that reserving one of the few channels there will inevitably
> >> >> make some other device fail to operate.
> >> >
> >> > No that doesnt make sense at all, you should get a channel only when you
> >> > want to use it and not in probe!
> >> 
> >> Tell that to just about every single driver ever written.
> >
> > Not really, few do yes which is wrong but not _all_ do that.
> 
> Every driver I ever looked at does.  Name one you consider "correct."

That only tells me you haven't looked enough and want to rant!

FWIW look at ALSA-dmaengine lib, thereby every audio driver that uses it. I
could find other examples and go on and on, but that's besides the point and
looks like you don't want to listen to people telling you something..

-- 
~Vinod

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Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 13:50 +0100
  Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-11-25 14:20 +0100
    Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 15:30 +0100
      Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-11-25 15:40 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-25 16:50 +0100
  Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 19:30 +0100
    Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 06:10 +0100
      Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-06 14:20 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-06 16:30 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-06 16:40 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-07 00:00 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 17:40 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-07 17:50 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 11:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 12:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 12:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 13:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 17:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 08:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-12-09 11:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 12:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished 1Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 12:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 18:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-09 18:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-09 18:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:00 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-09 19:20 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-09 19:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-08 13:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 14:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 14:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 16:40 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-12-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 17:30 +0100
                Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 17:50 +0100
        Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 17:40 +0100
          Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-07 17:50 +0100
            Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-12-08 11:30 +0100
              Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100

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