On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:33:32PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote: > Presumably Dan would be happy if you just add this right after the dev_warn(): > rs->dma_tx.ch = NULL; > Yes. Thanks. > Presumably from Dan's email it would also be wise to make sure you > don't pass NULL to PTR_ERR, which you could probably do by just using > ERR_PTR instead of PTR_ERR. I think you could structure like this: > > rs->dma_tx.ch = dma_request_slave_channel(rs->dev, "tx"); > - if (!rs->dma_tx.ch) > + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rs->dma_tx.ch)) { > + /* Check tx to see if we need defer probing driver */ > + if (rs->dma_tx.ch == ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER)) { > + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; > + goto err_get_fifo_len; > + } > dev_warn(rs->dev, "Failed to request TX DMA channel\n"); > + rs->dma_tx.ch = NULL; > + } My check doesn't care if you pass something to PTR_ERR() that might be NULL, it complains when PTR_ERR() can only be zero. And it's ok to have the warning for a while and silence it in another patch when we update dma_request_slave_channel(). But this also works well. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html