Re: [4.0-rc+] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at ./drivers/dma/dmaengine.c:863 dma_async_device_register+0xe0/0x540()

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 03:10:44 EST


On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 12:26:13PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Linus,
>
> I just got an automated bounce reply from Vinod Koul stating
> he's on vacation til April 12th, so I'd appreciate if you could
> revert this commit [1] for 4.0-final.
>
> The commit generates a WARNING [2] in a effort to get dmaengine drivers
> to add new functionality.
>
> I sent Vinod a note that this was happening on Beaglebone Blacks
> back on Mar 5 (-rc3). He thought the functionality would be added
> shortly, but it wasn't, so the WARNING is still happening on -rc7.

For completeness, note that this is just a warning generated at
boot. It doesn't change the previous behaviour in any way.

Any existing code will work just as well as it used to.

Maxime

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