Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:33:29 +0100
From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
To: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: mchehab@infradead.org, oliver@neukum.org, jwjstone@fastmail.fm,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
        linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] [media] ec168: get rid of on stack dma buffers
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:36:53 +0200
Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> wrote:

> On 03/15/2011 10:43 AM, Florian Mickler wrote:
> > usb_control_msg initiates (and waits for completion of) a dma transfer using
> > the supplied buffer. That buffer thus has to be seperately allocated on
> > the heap.
> >
> > In lib/dma_debug.c the function check_for_stack even warns about it:
> > 	WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:866 check_for_stack
> >
> > Note: This change is tested to compile only, as I don't have the hardware.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler<florian@mickler.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
> Reviewed-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
> Tested-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
> 
> t. Antti
> 

Thanks for the feedback!

Regards,
Flo
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