When booting with the DMA driver as module (such as CONFIG_FSL_EDMA=m) the following endlessly clk warnings are seen: [ 153.077831] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 153.082528] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 15 at drivers/clk/clk.c:924 clk_core_disable_lock+0x18/0x24 [ 153.093077] i2c0 already disabled [ 153.096416] Modules linked in: [ 153.099521] CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G W 5.2.0+ #321 [ 153.107290] Hardware name: Freescale Vybrid VF5xx/VF6xx (Device Tree) [ 153.113772] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func [ 153.118979] [<c0019560>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0014734>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [ 153.126778] [<c0014734>] (show_stack) from [<c083f8dc>] (dump_stack+0x9c/0xd4) [ 153.134051] [<c083f8dc>] (dump_stack) from [<c0031154>] (__warn+0xf8/0x124) [ 153.141056] [<c0031154>] (__warn) from [<c0031248>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x48) [ 153.148580] [<c0031248>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c040fde0>] (clk_core_disable_lock+0x18/0x24) [ 153.157413] [<c040fde0>] (clk_core_disable_lock) from [<c058f520>] (i2c_imx_probe+0x554/0x6ec) [ 153.166076] [<c058f520>] (i2c_imx_probe) from [<c04b9178>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x98) [ 153.174297] [<c04b9178>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c04b7298>] (really_probe+0x1d8/0x2c0) [ 153.182605] [<c04b7298>] (really_probe) from [<c04b7554>] (driver_probe_device+0x5c/0x174) [ 153.190909] [<c04b7554>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c04b58c8>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x44/0x8c) [ 153.199480] [<c04b58c8>] (bus_for_each_drv) from [<c04b746c>] (__device_attach+0xa0/0x108) [ 153.207782] [<c04b746c>] (__device_attach) from [<c04b65a4>] (bus_probe_device+0x88/0x90) [ 153.215999] [<c04b65a4>] (bus_probe_device) from [<c04b6a04>] (deferred_probe_work_func+0x60/0x90) [ 153.225003] [<c04b6a04>] (deferred_probe_work_func) from [<c004f190>] (process_one_work+0x204/0x634) [ 153.234178] [<c004f190>] (process_one_work) from [<c004f618>] (worker_thread+0x20/0x484) [ 153.242315] [<c004f618>] (worker_thread) from [<c0055c2c>] (kthread+0x118/0x150) [ 153.249758] [<c0055c2c>] (kthread) from [<c00090b4>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20) [ 153.257006] Exception stack(0xdde43fb0 to 0xdde43ff8) [ 153.262095] 3fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 153.270306] 3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 153.278520] 3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 [ 153.285159] irq event stamp: 3323022 [ 153.288787] hardirqs last enabled at (3323021): [<c0861c4c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x2c [ 153.297261] hardirqs last disabled at (3323022): [<c040d7a0>] clk_enable_lock+0x10/0x124 [ 153.305392] softirqs last enabled at (3322092): [<c000a504>] __do_softirq+0x344/0x540 [ 153.313352] softirqs last disabled at (3322081): [<c00385c0>] irq_exit+0x10c/0x128 [ 153.320946] ---[ end trace a506731ccd9bd703 ]--- When the DMA driver is built as module then dma_request_chan() returns -EPROBE_DEFER, so let's treat this case in the same way as "there is no DMA support" and make i2c_imx_dma_request() return success. Reported-by: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: e1ab9a468e3b ("i2c: imx: improve the error handling in i2c_imx_dma_request()") Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c index b1b8b938d7f4..0a07daeafdf2 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static int i2c_imx_dma_request(struct imx_i2c_struct *i2c_imx, fail_al: devm_kfree(dev, dma); /* return successfully if there is no dma support */ - return ret == -ENODEV ? 0 : ret; + return ((ret == -ENODEV || ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)) ? 0 : ret; } static void i2c_imx_dma_callback(void *arg) -- 2.17.1