Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 5 authors, 2015-01-18

[PATCH v4 57/58] dmaengine: Add a warning for drivers not using the generic slave caps retrieval

From: laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com (Laurent Pinchart)
Date: 2014-10-28 22:06:49
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Hi Maxime,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tuesday 28 October 2014 22:26:12 Maxime Ripard wrote:
For the slave caps retrieval to be really useful, most drivers need to
implement it.

Hence, we need to be slightly more aggressive, and trigger a warning at
registration time for drivers that don't fill their caps infos in order to
encourage them to implement it.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <redacted>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
index 98e9431f85ec..300c8cd2786c 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
@@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ int dma_async_device_register(struct dma_device *device)
BUG_ON(!device->device_issue_pending);
 	BUG_ON(!device->dev);

+	WARN(dma_has_cap(DMA_SLAVE, device->cap_mask) && !device->directions,
+	     "this driver doesn't support generic slave capabilities
reporting\n"); +
 	/* note: this only matters in the
 	 * CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_ENABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH=n case
 	 */
-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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