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dmaengine: qcom_hidma: comment platform_driver_register call 

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Place a comment in hidma_mgmt_init explaining why success must
currently be assumed, due to the cleanup issue that would need to
be considered were this module ever to be unloadable or were this
platform_driver_register call ever to fail.

Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Acked-By: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-52-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Phillip Potter 2021-05-03 13:57:18 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_mgmt.c
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@ -418,6 +418,20 @@ static int __init hidma_mgmt_init(void)
hidma_mgmt_of_populate_channels(child);
}
#endif
/*
* We do not check for return value here, as it is assumed that
* platform_driver_register must not fail. The reason for this is that
* the (potential) hidma_mgmt_of_populate_channels calls above are not
* cleaned up if it does fail, and to do this work is quite
* complicated. In particular, various calls of of_address_to_resource,
* of_irq_to_resource, platform_device_register_full, of_dma_configure,
* and of_msi_configure which then call other functions and so on, must
* be cleaned up - this is not a trivial exercise.
*
* Currently, this module is not intended to be unloaded, and there is
* no module_exit function defined which does the needed cleanup. For
* this reason, we have to assume success here.
*/
platform_driver_register(&hidma_mgmt_driver);
return 0;