Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: demote apb_regs warning to debug

From: Frank Li

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 10:30:51 EST


On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 06:14:14PM +0800, Baineng Shou wrote:
> dw_axi_dma_set_hw_channel() logs "apb_regs not initialized" at err
> level when apb_regs is absent. However, only Intel KeemBay
> ("intel,kmb-axi-dma") carries apb_regs; all other supported SoCs
> (snps,axi-dma-1.01a, sophgo,cv1800b, starfive,jh7110/jh8100) operate
> without it. For those, reaching this path during slave/cyclic prep and
> terminate is the normal no-op case, not an error, and the err log spams
> dmesg on every transfer.
>
> Demote it to dev_dbg to match the identical check in
> dw_axi_dma_set_byte_halfword().
>
> Signed-off-by: Baineng Shou <shoubaineng@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>

> drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
> index bcefaff03b5c..d829b9af5491 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
> @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static void dw_axi_dma_set_hw_channel(struct axi_dma_chan *chan, bool set)
> unsigned long reg_value, val;
>
> if (!chip->apb_regs) {
> - dev_err(chip->dev, "apb_regs not initialized\n");
> + dev_dbg(chip->dev, "apb_regs not initialized\n");
> return;
> }
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>