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To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: snd in -current, vmix, misc 
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 20:20:29 -0700
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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> On Sun, 12 May 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Care to enlighten us how we can tell isa.c  that the dma
> > is completed when we use isa_dmastart and auto dma initialize?
> 
> Oops... Sorry, didn't realize that you've got auto dma here.  This is a
> problem (there's actually a note about this in isa.c).  The ad1848 driver
> solves this by calling isa_dmadone when an interrupt occurs.  I guess with
> the GUS, the interrupt doesn't fall through all the layers it should to
> trigger this?
> 
> 
> Sujal
> 

Oh, I can call isa_dmadone however I think is a waste unless we intent
to shared dma channels and even then it makes no sense. I wonder 
what the  engineer who decided that we shall call isa_dmadone 
after we get a dma interrupt after a call to isa_dmastart had in mind??

	Tnks,
	Amancio