netdev - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 18/18] ALSA: pass struct device to DMA API functions

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Message-ID: <s5hpnsb8xen.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:13:04 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 18/18] ALSA: pass struct device to DMA API     functions

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:48:01 +0100,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> The DMA API generally relies on a struct device to work properly, and
> only barely works without one for legacy reasons.  Pass the easily
> available struct device from the platform_device to remedy this.
> 
> Also use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER as the gfp_t for the memory
> allocation, as we should treat this allocation as a normal kernel one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>


thanks,

Takashi