Although dma_map_sg returns 0 on error and it cannot return a
value < 0, the function returns a signed integer.
Most of the time, this function is used with a scatterlist structure.
This structure uses an unsigned integer for the number of memory.
A dma developer that has not read in detail DMA-API.txt, can wrongly
return a value < 0 on error.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index c3007cb..ac07ff0 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ struct dma_map_ops {
void (*unmap_page)(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
struct dma_attrs *attrs);
+ /*
+ * map_sg returns 0 on error and a value > 0 on success.
+ * It should never return a value < 0.
+ */
int (*map_sg)(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
struct dma_attrs *attrs);
--
2.1.4
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