On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:58:10AM +0000, Zhang, Tianfei wrote: > > > > On one hand the users have to care about being quiescent during > > > > shutdown, on the other there is nothing to prevent an abruption of > > > > execution. > > > > > > In normal work flow, it maybe ok. But if the state machine in wrong > > > state for some corner case for this synopsys dmac controller, so > > > current code will go into dead loop. > > > > I'm not objecting this patch, but it fixes the symptoms (though that is okay > > since the unlimited busy loops is a bad idea and I already propose d a fix half > > a year ago), not the original issue. > > Yes. yes this is turning out to be a really bad apple here, we need to solve this in a better manner rather than let battery drain out -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html