For the slave caps retrieval to be really useful, most drivers need to implement it. Hence, we need to be slightly more aggressive, and trigger a warning at registration time for drivers that don't fill their caps infos in order to encourage them to implement it. Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c index 98e9431f85ec..300c8cd2786c 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c +++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c @@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ int dma_async_device_register(struct dma_device *device) BUG_ON(!device->device_issue_pending); BUG_ON(!device->dev); + WARN(dma_has_cap(DMA_SLAVE, device->cap_mask) && !device->directions, + "this driver doesn't support generic slave capabilities reporting\n"); + /* note: this only matters in the * CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH=n case */ -- 2.1.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html