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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
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Subject: Re: dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan_resources
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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.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale