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Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: rockchip: check requesting dma channel with EPROBE_DEFER

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  Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: rockchip: check requesting dma channel with  EPROBE_DEFER Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-04-05 20:10 +0200

#1371852 — Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: rockchip: check requesting dma channel with EPROBE_DEFER

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:53:21AM +0800, Shawn Lin wrote:
> >Strange, but on 4.4 there was some extra code in
> >dma_request_slave_channel() that wasn't in
> >dma_request_slave_channel_reason().  ...but looks like that all got
> >cleaned up in the same CL that added the new name.
> 
> dma_request_chan already return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER), but
> dma_request_slave_channel ignore this and rewrite it to be NULL.
> Strange behaviour looks to me. commit 0ad7c00057dc ("dma: add channel
> request API that supports deferred probe")  did the right thing, but
> what happened then?  It was drop for some reasons?
> 
> Hello Vinod,
> 
> Could you please elaborate some more infomation to commit 0ad7c00057dc
> ("dma: add channel request API that supports deferred probe") :) ?

The request API was cleaned up here and please see the Documentation on how
to do this.

See the commit a8135d0d7 - dmaengine: core: Introduce new, universal API to
request a channel

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod

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