On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 15:47 +0530, Inderpal Singh wrote: > Since peripheral channel resources are not being allocated at probe, > no need to flush the channels and free the resources in remove function. > In case, the channel is in use by some client, return EBUSY. > > Signed-off-by: Inderpal Singh <inderpal.singh@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/dma/pl330.c | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/dma/pl330.c b/drivers/dma/pl330.c > index bf71ff7..4b7a34d 100644 > --- a/drivers/dma/pl330.c > +++ b/drivers/dma/pl330.c > @@ -3009,18 +3009,21 @@ static int __devexit pl330_remove(struct amba_device *adev) > if (!pdmac) > return 0; > > + /* check if any client is using any channel */ > + list_for_each_entry(pch, &pdmac->ddma.channels, > + chan.device_node) { > + > + if (pch->chan.client_count) > + return -EBUSY; > + } > + > while (!list_empty(&pdmac->desc_pool)) { Did you get this code executed? I think No. The dmaengine holds the reference to channels, so if they are in use and not freed by client your remove wont be called. So this check is redundant -- Vinod Koul Intel Corp. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html