Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:36:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
To: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>, Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@bitmer.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay
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> Remove the use of a tasklet to start the DMA channel when issue_pending is
> called.
> The use of tasklet delays the DMA start which can cause issues at drivers,
> for example the audio drivers expect that the DMA is started right away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>

I've reported the problem and now tested the patch applied on top of 
3.8.5, running on beagle-xm; sounds good, so

Tested-by: Peter Meerwald <p.meerwald@bct-electronic.com>

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