[RFC] dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay

Peter Meerwald pmeerw at pmeerw.net
Fri Mar 29 10:36:07 EDT 2013


> Remove the use of a tasklet to start the DMA channel when issue_pending is
> called.
> The use of tasklet delays the DMA start which can cause issues at drivers,
> for example the audio drivers expect that the DMA is started right away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com>

I've reported the problem and now tested the patch applied on top of 
3.8.5, running on beagle-xm; sounds good, so

Tested-by: Peter Meerwald <p.meerwald at bct-electronic.com>

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