[PATCH] ASoC: soc-generic-dmaengine: report DMA channel request failures more clearly

From: phucduc . bui

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 04:04:48 EST


From: bui duc phuc <phucduc.bui@xxxxxxxxx>

Currently any dma_request_chan() failure other than -EPROBE_DEFER is
silently ignored, since a missing channel is expected for devices that
only support one DMA direction. This makes two real problems
indistinguishable from that normal case:

1. If the channel name is actually present in "dma-names" but the
request still fails, that is a genuine error, not a missing direction
warn about it instead of staying silent.

2. If neither direction ends up with a channel, the PCM device is
entirely unusable. Unlike missing just one direction, this is never
expected, so fail probe with a clear error instead of registering a
non-functional PCM device.

No change for the still-silent, still-supported case of a device that
legitimately onlysupports one direction.

Signed-off-by: bui duc phuc <phucduc.bui@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c b/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
index 467426d2b5e4..c15c2d8248fa 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c
@@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ static int dmaengine_pcm_request_chan_of(struct dmaengine_pcm *pcm,
*/
if (PTR_ERR(chan) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+ if (device_property_match_string(dev, "dma-names", name) >= 0)
+ dev_warn(dev, "dma-names has '%s' but request failed (%ld)\n",
+ name, PTR_ERR(chan));
+
pcm->chan[i] = NULL;
} else {
pcm->chan[i] = chan;
@@ -406,6 +411,12 @@ static int dmaengine_pcm_request_chan_of(struct dmaengine_pcm *pcm,
if (pcm->flags & SND_DMAENGINE_PCM_FLAG_HALF_DUPLEX)
pcm->chan[1] = pcm->chan[0];

+ if (!pcm->chan[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK] &&
+ !pcm->chan[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE]) {
+ dev_err(dev, "no DMA chanel found for either playback or capture\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
return 0;
}

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