Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:14:20PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> >> That's not going to work very well. Device drivers typically request >> dma channels in their probe functions or when the device is opened. >> This means that reserving one of the few channels there will inevitably >> make some other device fail to operate. > > No that doesnt make sense at all, you should get a channel only when you > want to use it and not in probe! Tell that to just about every single driver ever written. -- Måns Rullgård -- 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