Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions

[Timur Tabi]

Vinod Koul wrote:
> Failing politely would be right thing to do. If DMA starts sending data to
> anywhere in system memory due to bug or wrong addresses we can't do
> anything to prevent that

My point is that I have a hard time believing that a DMA failure would 
likely result the driver politely detecting the problem and exiting 
properly.  I just don't think it's realistic to expect that.

Now maybe it's better for a catastrophic failure to occur when the 
driver loads instead of during some critical network operation.

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