[alsa-devel] davinci_request_dma()

[John Kacur]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:58:58AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>
> [The ASoC DaVinci driver uses davinci_request_dma() but...]
>
>> However, when I grep for davinci_request_dma, the only places I can
>> find it are in davinci_pcm_dma_request itself!
>
> ...
>
>> Either I'm missing something, or this code wouldn't even compile. I
>> would appreciate any help in understanding this.
>
> It was discovered a while ago that the code depends on an unmerged set
> of DMA API updates.  See this thread for more info:
>
>  http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-June/008674.html
>
> To be honest, I had expected that the required updates would have been
> merged by now but it seems not.  CCing the DaVinci list - I don't know
> what the status is on merging the new DMA API?
>

Thanks for the info. Is there a suggested SOC driver to use as a
reference driver in 2.6.26?