Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] i2c: add DMA support for freescale i2c driver

From: [email-masked] (Marek Vasut)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:52:53 +0200

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 02:15:02 PM, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Varka Bhadram wrote:
> > On 07/23/2014 04:41 PM, Yao Yuan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your review.
> > > 
> > > Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> > >> Yuan Yao wrote:
> > >>> Add dma support for i2c. This function depend on DMA driver.
> > >>> You can turn on it by write both the dmas and dma-name properties in
> > >>> dts node.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Yuan Yao <[email-masked]>
> > >>> ---
> > >>> 
> > >>>   drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 377
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > >>> +
> > >>> +fail_rx:
> > >>> +	dma_release_channel(dma->chan_rx);
> > >>> +fail_tx:
> > >>> +	dma_release_channel(dma->chan_tx);
> > >>> +fail_al:
> > >>> +	devm_kfree(dev, dma);
> > >> 
> > >> No need for this one (that's the whole point of using devm_kzalloc())!
> > > 
> > > When DMA request failed, I2C will switch to PIO mode. So if the failed
> > > reason is just like DMA channel request failed. At this time the DMA
> > > should free by devm_kfree(). Is it?
> > 
> > If probe failed the memory will be freed automatically because
> > we are using devm_kzalloc()...
> > 
> > If we use devm_kzalloc() ,no need to free manually on fail...
> 
> Yes, but as Yuan Yao stated, the driver will still work
> without DMA but carry around the unecessary allocated imx_i2c_dma
> struct.
> The devm_kfree() is not in the failure path of the driver's probe()
> function, but in the function that tries to initialize the optional DMA
> support.

If the DMA fails, I'd just make the entire probe fail. In case you cannot probe 
DMA for your hardware, which is exected to be DMA capable, it means something is 
wrong anyway.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut