From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "de01egw01.freescale.net", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BD0DDF0E for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:08:51 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <47878674.7010705@freescale.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:08:36 -0600 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] [ALSA] Add ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC References: <12000050651235-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <12000050664035-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <12000050682718-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <4786A650.2080107@freescale.com> <20080111002450.GA13291@lixom.net> In-Reply-To: <20080111002450.GA13291@lixom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Olof Johansson wrote: > Having been in a similar situation myself (needing to share resources > between DMA, ethernet and function offload), I recommend creating a > separate small library that all those drivers use, instead of making > some sort of dependency between drivers in completely different parts > of the kernel. Well, the DMA driver should be in soon. Actually, it should be in now, because I saw a blurb in this month's Linux Journal about it. As soon as I find it :-), I'll post a new patch that adds arbitration. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale