linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: Add privatecnt to revert DMA

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:27:27 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	maciej.sosnowski@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: Add privatecnt to revert DMA_PRIVATE propery

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:39:49 -0700, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
>> > Currently dma_request_channel() set DMA_PRIVATE capability but never
>> > clear it.  So if a public channel was once grabbed by
>> > dma_request_channel(), the device stay PRIVATE forever.  Add
>> > privatecnt member to dma_device to correctly revert it.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
>> > ---
>>
>> This looks good to me.  Please rebase it on top of the 'next' branch
>> of the async_tx tree[1] and I will queue it for -next.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx.git;a=shortlog;h=next
>
> Sorry, I have missed this mail.  I will rebase it, but while the
> 'next' branch of async_tx tree lacks commit 287d85 ("atmel-mci: fix
> initialization of dma slave data"), rebasing will cause another
> conflict with mainline.  What should I do?

I have updated the 'next' branch to include this commit.

Thanks,
Dan
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