Re: [PATCH] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Dan Williams wrote:

> The last three hunks should be broken out into a separate 'fix' patch
> with its own changelog.

Can you be more specific?  I can see how "return 0" -> "return -ENOMEM" could be
separated out, but the Kconfig hunk is integral to the patch, and the "if
(fsl_chan->desc_pool) return 1;" is needed to prevent a memory leak if the
module is unloaded.

>> -static __init int of_fsl_dma_chan_init(void)
>> +static void fsl_dma_chan_remove(struct fsl_dma_chan *fchan)
>>  {
>> -       return of_register_platform_driver(&of_fsl_dma_chan_driver);
>> +       if (fchan) {
>> +               of_device_unregister(fchan->of_dev);
>> +
>> +               free_irq(fchan->irq, fchan);
>> +               list_del(&fchan->common.device_node);
>> +               iounmap(fchan->reg_base);
>> +               kfree(fchan);
>> +       }
>>  }
> 
> removing a NULL fchan should be an error right?  

No, this is a side-effect of not using a linked-list to store the channels found
by the driver.  The driver has a 4-element array to store the channel info.
Normally, all four channels are defined in the OF device tree, so all four
elements are defined.  But it's not a requirement, so in those cases, the
non-defined channels will have NULL for fchan.

I have plans to replace the array with a linked list.  This change will fix a
few other minor problems with the driver.

> Perhaps move the
> check up to of_fsl_dma_remove().

I can do that.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale