On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:39:50AM +0000, Horia Geantă wrote: > > The fact that there can be multiple requests in parallel (for a given tfm) is a > different topic. > Each request object has its state in its own state machine, independent from the > other request objects. > I assume this is clear enough. My point is that all of the state associated with a request needs to be stored in the request object. If you're start storing things in the driver/hardware, then things will get ugly one way or another. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt