On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:28:16PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The only reason why we had dmacap,* properties is because back when
> DMA_MEMSET was supported, only one out of the two channels per engine
> could do a memset operation. But this is something that the driver
> already knows anyway, and since then, the DMA_MEMSET support has been
> removed.
>
> The driver is already well aware of what each channel supports and the
> one to one mapping between Linux specific implementation details (such
> as dmacap,interrupt enabling DMA_INTERRUPT) and DT properties is a
> good indication that these DT properties are wrong.
>
> Therefore, this commit simply gets rid of these dmacap,* properties,
> they are now ignored, and the driver is responsible for knowing the
> capabilities of the hardware with regard to the dmaengine subsystem
> expectations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt | 10 ++++------
> drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 9 +++------
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> index cc29c35..276ef81 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> @@ -12,10 +12,13 @@ XOR engine has. Those sub-nodes have the following required
> properties:
> - interrupts: interrupt of the XOR channel
>
> -And the following optional properties:
> +The sub-nodes used to contain one or several of the following
> +properties, but they are now deprecated:
> - dmacap,memcpy to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of memcpy operations
> - dmacap,memset to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of memset operations
> - dmacap,xor to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of xor operations
> +- dmacap,interrupt to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of
> + generating interrupts
>
> Example:
>
> @@ -28,13 +31,8 @@ xor@d0060900 {
>
> xor00 {
> interrupts = <51>;
> - dmacap,memcpy;
> - dmacap,xor;
> };
> xor01 {
> interrupts = <52>;
> - dmacap,memcpy;
> - dmacap,xor;
> - dmacap,memset;
I maybe wrong but there was an assumption that DT properties, even if bad
are always there as they need to be treated as kernel ABI.
How will it work if someone has older DT implementation or older driver?
Arnd, what are the rules here and are they documented anywhere?
--
~Vinod
> };
> };
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c b/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
> index 0a3ddc2..6aedc36 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
> @@ -1236,12 +1236,9 @@ static int mv_xor_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> op_in_desc = (int)of_id->data;
>
> dma_cap_zero(cap_mask);
> - if (of_property_read_bool(np, "dmacap,memcpy"))
> - dma_cap_set(DMA_MEMCPY, cap_mask);
> - if (of_property_read_bool(np, "dmacap,xor"))
> - dma_cap_set(DMA_XOR, cap_mask);
> - if (of_property_read_bool(np, "dmacap,interrupt"))
> - dma_cap_set(DMA_INTERRUPT, cap_mask);
> + dma_cap_set(DMA_MEMCPY, cap_mask);
> + dma_cap_set(DMA_XOR, cap_mask);
> + dma_cap_set(DMA_INTERRUPT, cap_mask);
>
> irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
> if (!irq) {
> --
> 2.4.5
>
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