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SubjectRe: dma_debug_device_change() gives bogus errors
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:20:04PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> dma_debug_device_change() gives bogus errors if a driver unmaps dma
> buffers within its driver->remove() method. This is because the
> BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER notification is raised before calling
> driver->remove() (see __device_release_driver() in drivers/base/dd.c).
>
> By the time my driver->remove() completes, there are no DMA mappings
> (debug_dma_dump_mappings() produces no output).
>
> Also, somewhat surprisingly, it only prints the error the first time the
> driver is unbound.

Thanks for the report. This is being worked on already. I will disable
this check for 2.6.30 and try to get a solution upstream for 2.6.31.

Joerg

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