Re: [PATCH 00/46] Use dmaenginem_async_device_register to simplify code

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 08/03/2018 09:19 AM, Huang Shijie wrote:
> All the patches are using dmaenginem_async_device_register to simplify code
> except the last one:
>   dmaengine: add COMPILE_TEST for the drivers
> 
> I use the last one to do the compiler test.  
> There are still 20 drivers which do not use the dmaenginem_async_device_register.
> Let me take a rest, if this patch set is accepted, I will do the rest.

Lots of race conditions in this series. The DMA device needs to be removed
before any of the resources it uses are disabled/released.

As a rule of thumb you can only convert something to a managed
allocation/reregistration if it is the last action in remove.