On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:31:26PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
> 
> DMA is opt-in for this driver. So, we can't use deferred probing for
> requesting DMA channels in probe, because our driver would get endlessly
> deferred if DMA support is compiled in AND the DMA driver is missing.
> Because we can't know when the DMA driver might show up, we always try
> again when a DMA transfer would be possible. The downside is that there
> is more overhead for setting up PIO transfers under the above scenario.
> But well, having DMA enabled and the proper DMA driver missing looks
> like a broken or test config anyhow.
> 
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>

Applied to for-current, thanks!

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