From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>,
Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:00:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150724063019.GP29916@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1507240749290.2225@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:51:28AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Yes for dmaengine drivers I do ask this question which typically ends up in
> > driver invoking devm_irq_free() in driver's remove callback
> >
> > IMHO don't think devm irq calls are very useful, they do make stuff
> > complicate
>
> Would it be better then to just go back to request_irq (or whatever is
> appropriate in this case). It would seem that the devm property can never
> be relied on, so there is no point to use it.
Yes I do think that is right way in this case
--
~Vinod
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-24 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-19 9:08 question about drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c Julia Lawall
2015-07-20 8:18 ` Alex Smith
2015-07-20 8:28 ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-21 4:15 ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-22 14:26 ` Alex Smith
2015-07-23 17:21 ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-23 17:24 ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-24 5:42 ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-24 5:51 ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-24 6:30 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2015-07-24 6:49 ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-24 8:28 ` Alex Smith
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