Re: dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan_resources

[Timur Tabi]

Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:

> I guess so. What would be even more simple is to simply prevent other
> clients from taking a channel once someone has acked it, which would be
> perfect for my purposes, but perhaps not everyone else's...

I'm not clear on how your driver works, but doesn't it run continuous tests on
all channels all the time?  If so, wouldn't your proposal prevent other drivers
from ever getting a DMA channel?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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