[PATCH 4/5] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Do not configure channels during an channel allocation

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Apr 9 06:04:35 EDT 2013


On Tue, 09 Apr 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> > According to the DMA documentation allocating a channel and configuring
> > it are two separate actions. By removing the configuration code from the
> > channel allocation path we lighten the burden on the information required to
> > successfully allocate a channel.
> 
> Did you send out the first version again? The text is the same as before.

No, the first commit message implied I'd moved the config code from
'allocate' to 'configure', whereas in reality I just removed it from
'allocate', as it's already in 'configure'.

This changelog is different (and more accurate) than the first.

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