Re: [PATCH v5 06/11] spi: imx: return error from dma channel request

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 05:57:04PM +0100, Anton Bondarenko wrote:
> On SDMA initialization return exactly the same error, which is
> reported by dma_request_slave_channel_reason(), it is a preceding
> change to defer SPI DMA initialization, if SDMA module is not yet
> available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Bondarenko <anton.bondarenko.sama@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c
> index 3525616..277dd75 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c
> @@ -846,10 +846,11 @@ static int spi_imx_sdma_init(struct device *dev, struct spi_imx_data *spi_imx,
>  	spi_imx->wml = spi_imx_get_fifosize(spi_imx) / 2;
>  
>  	/* Prepare for TX DMA: */
> -	master->dma_tx = dma_request_slave_channel(dev, "tx");
> -	if (!master->dma_tx) {
> -		dev_err(dev, "cannot get the TX DMA channel!\n");
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	master->dma_tx = dma_request_slave_channel_reason(dev, "tx");
> +	if (IS_ERR(master->dma_tx)) {
> +		dev_info(dev, "cannot get the TX DMA channel!\n");

When changing it can you add the error code to the message? That's
usually the next thing one wants to know when reading it. Also, isn't
dev_dbg enough here? Otherwise the driver gets really verbose when it
actually defers probe.

Sascha

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