On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:04:22AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > From: Stephen Warren <[email protected]> > > dma_request_slave_channel() simply returns NULL whenever DMA channel > lookup fails. Lookup could fail for two distinct reasons: > > a) No DMA specification exists for the channel name. > This includes situations where no DMA specifications exist at all, or > other general lookup problems. > > b) A DMA specification does exist, yet the driver for that channel is not > yet registered. > > Case (b) should trigger deferred probe in client drivers. However, since > they have no way to differentiate the two situations, it cannot. > > Implement new function dma_request_slave_channel_reason(), which performs > identically to dma_request_slave_channel(), except that it returns an > error-pointer rather than NULL, which allows callers to detect when > deferred probe should occur. > > Eventually, all drivers should be converted to this new API, the old API > removed, and the new API renamed to the more desirable name. This patch > doesn't convert the existing API and all drivers in one go, since some > drivers call dma_request_slave_channel() then dma_request_channel() if > that fails. That would require either modifying dma_request_channel() in > the same way, or adding extra error-handling code to all affected > drivers, and there are close to 100 drivers using the other API, rather > than just the 15-20 or so that use dma_request_slave_channel(), which > might be tenable in a single patch. > > acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_name() doesn't currently implement > deferred probe. It should, but this will be addressed later. > > Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]> Applied, to topic/defer_probe, this wont be rebased so feel free to merge
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