On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:41 AM Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx> wrote: > dma_request_slave_channel() is a wrapper on top of dma_request_chan() > eating up the error code. > > By using dma_request_chan() directly the driver can support deferred > probing against DMA. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> One comment below. > --- a/drivers/media/platform/rcar_drif.c > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rcar_drif.c > @@ -275,10 +275,10 @@ static int rcar_drif_alloc_dmachannels(struct rcar_drif_sdr *sdr) > for_each_rcar_drif_channel(i, &sdr->cur_ch_mask) { > struct rcar_drif *ch = sdr->ch[i]; > > - ch->dmach = dma_request_slave_channel(&ch->pdev->dev, "rx"); > - if (!ch->dmach) { > + ch->dmach = dma_request_chan(&ch->pdev->dev, "rx"); > + if (IS_ERR(ch->dmach)) { > rdrif_err(sdr, "ch%u: dma channel req failed\n", i); Now there is an error code, you might (1) want to print it, and (2) only do so when it is not due to probe deferral: if (PTR_ERR(ch->dmach) != -EPROBE_DEFER) rdrif_err(sdr, "ch%u: dma channel req failed %pe\n", i, ch->dmach); > - ret = -ENODEV; > + ret = PTR_ERR(ch->dmach); > goto dmach_error; > } Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds