From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mans@mansr.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:45:58 +0000 Subject: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished In-Reply-To: <20161207164341.GX6408@localhost> (Vinod Koul's message of "Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:13:41 +0530") References: <58356EA8.2010806@free.fr> <20161125045549.GC2698@localhost> <092f44ee-4560-be17-25f7-00948dba3cfa@free.fr> <20fc9020-7278-bc2f-2a8d-43aff5cabff8@free.fr> <20161206051222.GQ6408@localhost> <5846B237.8060409@free.fr> <20161207164341.GX6408@localhost> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Vinod Koul writes: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:14:20PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd 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. -- M?ns Rullg?rd