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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>,
	Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:51:28 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1507240749290.2225@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150724054226.GO29916@localhost>

> Yes for dmaengine drivers I do ask this question which typically ends up in
> driver invoking devm_irq_free() in driver's remove callback
> 
> IMHO don't think devm irq calls are very useful, they do make stuff
> complicate

Would it be better then to just go back to request_irq (or whatever is
appropriate in this case).  It would seem that the devm property can never
be relied on, so there is no point to use it.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-19  9:08 Julia Lawall
2015-07-20  8:18 ` Alex Smith
2015-07-20  8:28   ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-21  4:15     ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-22 14:26       ` Alex Smith
2015-07-23 17:21         ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-23 17:24           ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-24  5:42             ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-24  5:51               ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2015-07-24  6:30                 ` Vinod Koul
2015-07-24  6:49                   ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-24  8:28                   ` Alex Smith

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