+ Matt, who is doing the DMA engine conversion for EDMA On 9/12/2012 11:44 PM, Cyril Chemparathy wrote: > This patch adds a check for the presence of the channel controller when > trying to allocate a slot. Without this fix, the kernel panics with a NULL > pointer dereference when the dma-engine drivers are probed. > > Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cy...@ti.com> > --- > arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c > index a685e97..2fee31e 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c > @@ -743,6 +743,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(edma_free_channel); > */ > int edma_alloc_slot(unsigned ctlr, int slot) > { > + if (!edma_cc[ctlr]) > + return -ENODEV;
I am ok with this patch, although I wonder if a better error is -ENXIO or even -EINVAL (since its most likely the result of a wrong argument). This patch will conflict with the EDMA movement series that Matt is doing and he should probably include it in his series to avoid conflicts. From the description it appears to be not required for v3.7 anyway. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/