Hi Wolfram, On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 11:45 AM Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The debug message could still report success when getting the channels > was OK but configuring them failed. This actually caused a minor detour > when debugging DMA problems, so make sure the success is only reported > when the channels are really ready-to-use. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your patch! > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sh_mmcif.c > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sh_mmcif.c > @@ -439,14 +439,15 @@ static void sh_mmcif_request_dma(struct sh_mmcif_host *host) > if (IS_ERR(host->chan_rx)) > host->chan_rx = NULL; > } > - dev_dbg(dev, "%s: got channel TX %p RX %p\n", __func__, host->chan_tx, > - host->chan_rx); This was not a real success indicator, which could indeed confuse people, but an obfuscated NULL-pointer still prints as NULL, right? > if (!host->chan_tx || !host->chan_rx || > sh_mmcif_dma_slave_config(host, host->chan_tx, DMA_MEM_TO_DEV) || > sh_mmcif_dma_slave_config(host, host->chan_rx, DMA_DEV_TO_MEM)) > goto error; > > + dev_dbg(dev, "%s: got channel TX %p RX %p\n", __func__, host->chan_tx, > + host->chan_rx); This means we no longer see a debug message in case only one DMA channel could be requested, thus requiring manual addition of more code to find out what was really wrong? > + > return; > > 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