linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: of: bail out early if "dmas" property is not present

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2015 01:30:21 +0200
From:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: of: bail out early if "dmas" property is not present

Hi Wolfram,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday 14 January 2015 15:16:28 Wolfram Sang wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
> 
> And don't print an error: not configured is not an error.
> 
> Reported-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>

This looks good to me.

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>

> ---
> 
> In response to Philipp's patch silencing the warning in the driver:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/425696/
> 
> I think this should be handled in the core.
> 
>  drivers/dma/of-dma.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/of-dma.c b/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> index d5fbeaa1e7ba..ca31f1b45366 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/of-dma.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ struct dma_chan *of_dma_request_slave_channel(struct
> device_node *np, return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>  	}
> 
> +	/* Silently fail if there is not even the "dmas" property */
> +	if (!of_find_property(np, "dmas", NULL))
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
>  	count = of_property_count_strings(np, "dma-names");
>  	if (count < 0) {
>  		pr_err("%s: dma-names property of node '%s' missing or empty\n",

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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