On 27 September 2012 15:18, Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:11 +0530, Inderpal Singh wrote: >> If we fail pl330_remove while some client is queued, the force unload >> will fail and the >> force unload will lose its purpose. >> How about conditionally DMA_TERMINATE_ALL and free resources like >> below ? > Why would you want to remove the driver when it is doing something > useful? You have to ensure driver is not doing anything. > > What is point here? > As mentioned by jassi, if the pl330 module is forced unloaded while some client is queued, we have to manually do DMA_TERMINATE_ALL.
If failing remove is a better option in case some client is queued, we can do away with DMA_TERMINATE_ALL and free_chan_resources and simply return a suitable error code from remove. Kindly suggest. Thanks, Inder > -- > ~Vinod > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
