On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:12:16PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: > > > Does the driver access the DMA and GUTS registers directly? If so, > > what do you have to protect against race conditions of other drivers > > accessing them also. > > I don't have any more protection than any other driver that accesses SOC > registers directly. Last I heard, Zhang's DMA driver was in limbo, and that > driver would be the best place to arbitrate DMA register access. I was planning > on adding arbitration support to that driver after both drivers were applied. Having been in a similar situation myself (needing to share resources between DMA, ethernet and function offload), I recommend creating a separate small library that all those drivers use, instead of making some sort of dependency between drivers in completely different parts of the kernel. -Olof _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
