From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan_resources
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:31:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D2664D.7040204@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080918162826.3a9d9429@hskinnemo-gx745.norway.atmel.com>
Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better if the dmaengine layer made sure it didn't pass
> the same channel several times to a client?
Wouldn't that require it to keep track of which clients have already seen which
channels? It might make more sense, but it's probably easier the current way.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-16 21:30 dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan_resources Timur Tabi
2008-09-17 22:36 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-18 14:13 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-18 14:28 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-09-18 14:31 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-09-18 14:45 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-09-18 14:49 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-18 15:00 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-09-19 4:20 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-19 11:25 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-09-19 14:34 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-19 14:50 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-09-19 15:01 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-19 15:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-20 23:00 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-21 9:26 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-09-21 19:50 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-22 7:44 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
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