On Wednesday 15 July 2009 6:49:35 am Roman Divacky wrote: > hi > > the isa_dma* functions seem to require Giant. ppc(4) uses those > but does not seem to lock Giant or anything. is this ok? > is it a bug? Doh, that is a bug. > I looked at the i386/isa/isa_dma.c and it seems pretty selfcontained > (ie. it operates on hw and it's own variables). would it be sufficient > to just introduce a new lock and lock with it all the isa_dma* functions > ? or is there some indirect dependency on Giant that I cant see? That would probably work. If it can be self-contained in the isa_dma API that would so that consumers do not need fixing that would be ideal. -- John BaldwinReceived on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 12:01:25 UTC
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