Re: [PATCH 03/13] serial: 8250_dma: Support for deferred probing when requesting DMA channels

Tony Lindgren
2015-05-26T15:08:53Z

* Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> [150526 06:28]:
> Switch to use ma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason() to request the DMA
> channels. In case of error, return the error code we received including
> -EPROBE_DEFER
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c
> index 21d01a491405..a617eca4e97d 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c
> @@ -182,21 +182,19 @@ int serial8250_request_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p)
> dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, mask);
>
> /* Get a channel for RX */
> - dma->rxchan = dma_request_slave_channel_compat(mask,
> - dma->fn, dma->rx_param,
> - p->port.dev, "rx");
> - if (!dma->rxchan)
> - return -ENODEV;
> + dma->rxchan = dma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason(mask, dma->fn,
> + dma->rx_param, p->port.dev, "rx");
> + if (IS_ERR(dma->rxchan))
> + return PTR_ERR(dma->rxchan);
>
> dmaengine_slave_config(dma->rxchan, &dma->rxconf);
>
> /* Get a channel for TX */
> - dma->txchan = dma_request_slave_channel_compat(mask,
> - dma->fn, dma->tx_param,
> - p->port.dev, "tx");
> - if (!dma->txchan) {
> + dma->txchan = dma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason(mask, dma->fn,
> + dma->tx_param, p->port.dev, "tx");
> + if (IS_ERR(dma->txchan)) {
> dma_release_channel(dma->rxchan);
> - return -ENODEV;
> + return PTR_ERR(dma->txchan);
> }
>
> dmaengine_slave_config(dma->txchan, &dma->txconf);

In general the drivers need to work just fine also without DMA.

Does this handle the case properly where no DMA channel is configured
for the driver in the dts file?

Regards,

Tony