netdev - Re: [PATCH 07/13] dmaengine: introduce dma_request

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Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:26:49 +0100
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	maciej.sosnowski@...el.com, hskinnemoen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private
 channels

Guennadi Liakhovetski :
> Another problem I encountered with my framebuffer is the initialisation 
> order. You initialise dmaengine per subsys_initcall(), whereas the only 
> way to guarantee the order:
> 
> dmaengine
> dma-device driver
> framebuffer
> 
> when they are all linked into the kernel was to switch dmaengine to 
> arch_initcall, put the dma driver under subsys_initcall, and the 
> framebuffer under a normal module_init / device_initcall.

I did not dig much in this but I feel also that dmaengine is initialized 
a bit late : it seems to be initialized after atmel-mci is started.
It works but it seems to me that dmaengine has to be initialized very 
early...

...my 2 cents.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre

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