Re: [PATCH] dma: tegra: fix interrupt name issue with apb dma.

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:48:07PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> When watching the interrupts through /proc/interrupts,
> the name of the interrupts are blank or garbage. The
> reason is the pointer passed for devname during irq
> registration is stack and so it get changed after
> dma registration completes.
> Allocate the pointer as part of dma channel and pass
> this pointer as the devname for irq registration to
> avoid change of name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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