When we fail to obtain a DMA channel, don't return a blanket -EINVAL, instead return the original error code if there's one. This makes deferring work as it should. Also don't print an error message for -EPROBE_DEFER. Fixes: 4ec8179c212f ("ASoC: apple: mca: Postpone requesting of DMA channels") Signed-off-by: Martin Povišer <povik+lin@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/apple/mca.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/apple/mca.c b/sound/soc/apple/mca.c index aea08c7b2ee8..64750db9b963 100644 --- a/sound/soc/apple/mca.c +++ b/sound/soc/apple/mca.c @@ -950,10 +950,17 @@ static int mca_pcm_new(struct snd_soc_component *component, chan = mca_request_dma_channel(cl, i); if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(chan)) { + mca_pcm_free(component, rtd->pcm); + + if (chan && PTR_ERR(chan) == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return PTR_ERR(chan); + dev_err(component->dev, "unable to obtain DMA channel (stream %d cluster %d): %pe\n", i, cl->no, chan); - mca_pcm_free(component, rtd->pcm); - return -EINVAL; + + if (!chan) + return -EINVAL; + return PTR_ERR(chan); } cl->dma_chans[i] = chan; -- 2.33.0