This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: defconfig: build imx-sdma as a module
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-defconfig-build-imx-sdma-as-a-module.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f41fcafdc97dd39b1d018cc4645e6ea8b391e7c9
Author: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 28 17:00:56 2022 +0100
arm64: defconfig: build imx-sdma as a module
[ Upstream commit e95622289f263662240544a9f0009b25c19e64d4 ]
This avoids firmware load error and sysfs fallback reported as follows:
[ 0.199448] imx-sdma 302c0000.dma-controller: Direct firmware load
for imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin failed with error -2
[ 0.199487] imx-sdma 302c0000.dma-controller: Falling back to sysfs
fallback for: imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin
Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
index 545197bc0501..4972a81d40d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
CONFIG_DMA_BCM2835=y
CONFIG_DMA_SUN6I=m
CONFIG_FSL_EDMA=y
-CONFIG_IMX_SDMA=y
+CONFIG_IMX_SDMA=m
CONFIG_K3_DMA=y
CONFIG_MV_XOR=y
CONFIG_MV_XOR_V2=y
