Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, cov@codeaurora.org, jcm@redhat.com,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:31:57 -0600
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Sinan Kaya wrote:
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> Almost all DMA engine drivers come with some sort of selftest code
> called from probe. I followed the same design pattern.

As others have said, it appears that's outdated.

Is there a real possibility that the hardware could fail the test 
without trashing the system?  It seems that if the DMA engine is faulty, 
it won't "politely" fail.  The whole system will crash or some memory 
will get corrupted and you won't know it.

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