Re: [PATCH 2/6] dmaengine/dw_dmac: Enable resubmission fromcallback routine.

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 16:31:52 EST


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42:24AM +0530, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 04:20 PM, viresh kumar wrote:
> >
> > Resubmission of new transfer must be allowed from callbacks. For this release
> > lock before calling callback routine and enable them again.
> Why would you like to do that?
>
> IMO it's not a good thing as you are essentially doing it in your tasklet...
> Make sure the submit() is done by client before this and you use it to start
> next transaction in you tasklet and let client know in callback txn is
> finished.

No. Submission is explicitly permitted (by Dan) in slave DMA callbacks.
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