On 11/16/2013 02:44 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:54:10PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
>> - DMA device
>
>> This allows requesting DMA channels for a device other than the
>> device which is registering the "PCM" driver. This is quite
>> unusual, but is currently useful on Tegra. In much HW, and in
>> Tegra20, each DAI HW
...
> I'm a bit concerned about anything actually using dma_dev since it
> indicates that something is being worked around, it'd be a bit
> nicer to print a warning when doing this to give people a hint
> that they might not be doing the right thing if they use it
> (unless someone comes up with a system that has a clear use case
> for it).
What if I squash the following into that patch:
> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c b/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
> index 1160d1cba133..0e2645dee96a 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
> @@ -296,8 +296,17 @@ static int dmaengine_pcm_request_chan_of(struct dmaengine_pcm *pcm,
> !dev->of_node)
> return 0;
>
> - if (config->dma_dev)
> + if (config->dma_dev) {
> + /*
> + * If this warning is seen, it probably means that your Linux
> + * device structure does not match your HW device structure.
> + * It would be best to refactor the Linux device structure to
> + * correctly match the HW structure.
> + */
> + dev_warn(dev, "DMA channels sourced from device %s",
> + dev_name(config->dma_dev));
> dev = config->dma_dev;
> + }
>
> for (i = SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK; i <= SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE;
> i++) {
(a few patches later) That yields the following warning on Tegra, for
example:
> [ 2.629623] tegra30-i2s 70080400.i2s: DMA channels sourced from device 70080000.ahub
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