[PATCH 2/5] dma-mapping: Add devm_ interface for dma_map_single()
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Fri May 16 21:08:05 UTC 2014
Hello,
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:26:36AM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote:
> +dma_addr_t dmam_map_single(struct device *dev, void *ptr, size_t size,
> + enum dma_data_direction direction)
> +
> +{
> + struct dma_devres *dr;
> + dma_addr_t dma_handle;
> +
> + dr = devres_alloc(dmam_map_single_release, sizeof(*dr), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!dr)
> + return 0;
> +
> + dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, ptr, size, direction);
Don't we wanna map the underlying operation - dma_map_single_attrs() -
instead?
> + if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
> + devres_free(dr);
> + return 0;
Can't we just keep returning dma_handle? Even if that means invoking
->mapping_error() twice? It's yucky to have subtly different error
return especially because in most cases it won't fail.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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