On 08/07/2015 06:07 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> If we look at what 8250-dma.c is doing:
>>
>> if (dma->rx_running) {
>> dmaengine_pause(dma->rxchan);
>>
>> It's 8250-dma.c which is silently _ignoring_ the return code, failing
>> to check that the operation it requested worked. Maybe this should be
>> WARN_ON(dmaengine_pause(dma->rxchan)) or at least it should print a
>> message?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion; I'll hold on to that and push it after we add
> the 8250 omap dma pause in mainline.
I have a patch ready with WARN_ON_ONCE() for 8250-omap and 8250-dma.
This warning would trigger on am335x/edma until v4.2-rc1 and omap-dma
based version is open. I could post it if you want me to.
Besides that those two, there are four other drivers ignoring the
return code dmaengine_pause().
Sebastian
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