Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@intel.com> writes: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:14:20PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> >> That's not going to work very well. Device drivers typically request >> dma channels in their probe functions or when the device is opened. >> This means that reserving one of the few channels there will inevitably >> make some other device fail to operate. > > No that doesnt make sense at all, you should get a channel only when you > want to use it and not in probe!
Tell that to just about every single driver ever written. -- Måns Rullgård