[PATCH v7 1/3] MTD : add the common code for GPMI-NFC controller driver

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:42:14PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 
> > > > Still, the problem exists: When a second channel GPMI channel is
> > > > requested, dmaengine will return -EBUSY, because the DMAIRQ is already
> > > > taken.
> > > >
> > > Yes, we should change the DMA code, it is a DMA bug.
> > > I ever submitted a patch about the issue:
> > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/87145/
> > 
> > That approach was rejected because it would register the same handler
> > n-times where one time would do. Your other approach puts too much
> > mach-specific details into the driver IMO and probably won't scale very
> > well. Maybe we should add something to the private dma_data (like flags
> > indicating SHARED) and then do some refcounting?
> 
> Why not just request the interrupt once when the mxs-dma stuff probes,
> rather than requesting it every time a channel is allocated?

It is only the NAND DMA channels which share one dma-irq. All other
channels have a seperate interrupt.

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