[PATCH v2 1/5] dmaengine: add ep93xx DMA support

[Mika Westerberg]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:59:50AM -0600, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c
> > @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ static void ep93xx_dma_set_active(struct
> >  static struct ep93xx_dma_desc *
> >  ep93xx_dma_get_active(struct ep93xx_dma_chan *edmac)
> >  {
> > +	BUG_ON(list_empty(&edmac->active));
> 
> BUG_ON is evil...
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right way to handle this.
> 
> If your doing dma the list should never be empty.  If it is I think it should
> have been caught way before this.  Mika, do you have any comments?

I agree - the list should never be empty when this is called. The actual bug
is somewhere else.