Re: [PATCH] pch_dma: Fix suspend issue

[Vinod Koul]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:33 +0900, Tomoya MORINAGA wrote:
> (2011/10/07 15:14), Vinod Koul wrote:
> > This is all is due to not saving nr_channels in probe and using that
> > instead.
> >
> > Looking deeper, struct pch_dma defines array of length MAX_CHAN_NR for
> > channels. Then why do you allocate memory in probe as
> >           pd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pch_dma)+
> >                   sizeof(struct pch_dma_chan) * nr_channels, GFP_KERNEL);
> > what is the point in allocating additional memory for each channel?
> >
> > Given this, why should there be predefined channel array in pcm_dma?
> >
> > It would be great if we could fix this by dynamically allocating memory
> > for channels based on nr_channels and not wasting due to a static array.
> 
> You are right.
> Current pch_dma driver looks like wasting memory.
> 
> We must review pch_dma driver again.
Okay, can you update the changelog to indicate how it is fixing the
suspend issue, original change log doesn't help


-- 
~Vinod

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