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pnp: restore automatic resolution of DMA conflicts

To fix a 5-year-old regression, reverse changes made by commit
7ef3639 (PNP: don't fail device init if no DMA channel available).

As an example to show the problem, my sound card provides a
prioritized list of PnP "dependent sets" of requested resources:

dependent set 0 (preferred) wants DMA 5.
dependent set 1 (acceptable) will take DMA 5, 6, or 7.
...
dependent set 4 (acceptable) doesn't request a high DMA.

If DMA 5 is not available, pnp_assign_dma has to fail on set 0 so that
pnp_auto_config_dev will move on to set 1 and get DMA 6 or 7.
Instead, pnp_assign_dma adds the resource with flags |=
IORESOURCE_DISABLED and returns success. pnp_auto_config_dev just
sees success and therefore chooses set 0 with a disabled DMA and never
tries the sets that would have resolved the conflict.

Furthermore, this mode of "success" is unexpected and unhandled in
sound/isa/sb and probably other drivers. sb assumes that the returned
DMA is enabled and obliviously uses the invalid DMA number. Observed
consequences were sb successfully grabbing a DMA that was expressly
forbidden by the kernel parameter pnp_reserve_dma.

The only upside to the original change would be as a kludge for
devices that can operate in degraded mode without a DMA but that don't
provide the corresponding non-preferred dependent set. The right
workaround for those devices is to synthesize the missing set in
quirks.c; otherwise, you're reinventing PnP fallback functionality at
the driver level for that device and all others.

Signed-off-by: David Flater <dave@flaterco.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

authored by

David Flater and committed by
Rafael J. Wysocki
bdf0eb3a c7788792

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drivers/pnp/manager.c
··· 211 211 res->start = -1; 212 212 res->end = -1; 213 213 214 + if (!rule->map) { 215 + res->flags |= IORESOURCE_DISABLED; 216 + pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, " dma %d disabled\n", idx); 217 + goto __add; 218 + } 219 + 214 220 for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { 215 221 if (rule->map & (1 << xtab[i])) { 216 222 res->start = res->end = xtab[i]; ··· 224 218 goto __add; 225 219 } 226 220 } 227 - #ifdef MAX_DMA_CHANNELS 228 - res->start = res->end = MAX_DMA_CHANNELS; 229 - #endif 230 - res->flags |= IORESOURCE_DISABLED; 231 - pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, " disable dma %d\n", idx); 221 + 222 + pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, " couldn't assign dma %d\n", idx); 223 + return -EBUSY; 232 224 233 225 __add: 234 226 pnp_add_dma_resource(dev, res->start, res->flags);