From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] dmaengine: Introduce dma_request_slave_channel_compat_reason() Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:42:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1432646768-12532-1-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <1432646768-12532-3-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <20150529093317.GF3140@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Peter Ujfalusi , Tony Lindgren , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Dan Williams , dmaengine-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linux-serial-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Linux MMC List , linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-spi , Linux Media Mailing List , ALSA Development Mailing List To: Vinod Koul Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150529093317.GF3140@localhost> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Vinod Koul wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 04:25:57PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: >> dma_request_slave_channel_compat() 'eats' up the returned error codes which >> prevents drivers using the compat call to be able to do deferred probing. >> >> The new wrapper is identical in functionality but it will return with error >> code in case of failure and will pass the -EPROBE_DEFER to the caller in >> case dma_request_slave_channel_reason() returned with it. > This is okay but am worried about one more warpper, how about fixing > dma_request_slave_channel_compat() Then all callers of dma_request_slave_channel_compat() have to be modified to handle ERR_PTR first. The same is true for (the existing) dma_request_slave_channel_reason() vs. dma_request_slave_channel(). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html