On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:53:21AM +0800, Shawn Lin wrote: > >Strange, but on 4.4 there was some extra code in > >dma_request_slave_channel() that wasn't in > >dma_request_slave_channel_reason(). ...but looks like that all got > >cleaned up in the same CL that added the new name. > > dma_request_chan already return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER), but > dma_request_slave_channel ignore this and rewrite it to be NULL. > Strange behaviour looks to me. commit 0ad7c00057dc ("dma: add channel > request API that supports deferred probe") did the right thing, but > what happened then? It was drop for some reasons? > > Hello Vinod, > > Could you please elaborate some more infomation to commit 0ad7c00057dc > ("dma: add channel request API that supports deferred probe") :) ? The request API was cleaned up here and please see the Documentation on how to do this. See the commit a8135d0d7 - dmaengine: core: Introduce new, universal API to request a channel Thanks -- ~Vinod