On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 03:12:03PM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > Remove the use of a tasklet to start the DMA channel when issue_pending is > called. > The use of tasklet delays the DMA start which can cause issues at drivers, > for example the audio drivers expect that the DMA is started right away. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfal...@ti.com> > --- > Hi Russell, > > I know you are against removing the tasklet since you have planed to move the > omap-dma to use runtime/dynamic DMA channel use. > I have looked at the amba-pl08x.c driver which is doing that exactly (as you > pointed out that to me). AMBA did not use tasklet either and I'm sure we can > change the omap-dma driver to do the same in a same way as we could have done > it > with the tasklet use.
It's rather sad that you're ignoring what I'm saying, and going by what another DMA engine driver - which is self contained - is doing, rather than listening to my arguments against that approach. I think in return I'll just ignore this patch, showing you the same respect you show me. Congratuations. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
