Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] Fix a dead loop on dw shutdown

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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

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