RE: [PATCH V6 06/11] drivers: platform: Configure dma operations at probe time

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Hi Lorenzo,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lorenzo Pieralisi [mailto:lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 5:37 PM
>To: Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: robin.murphy@xxxxxxx; will.deacon@xxxxxxx; joro@xxxxxxxxxx; iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-
>kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx; bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 06/11] drivers: platform: Configure dma operations at probe time
>
>[+bjorn]
>
>On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:45:43AM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
>> Configuring DMA ops at probe time will allow deferring device probe when
>> the IOMMU isn't available yet. The dma_configure for the device is
>> now called from the generic device_attach callback just before the
>> bus/driver probe is called. This way, configuring the DMA ops for the
>> device would be called at the same place for all bus_types, hence the
>> deferred probing mechanism should work for all buses as well.
>>
>> pci_bus_add_devices    (platform/amba)(_device_create/driver_register)
>>        |                         |
>> pci_bus_add_device     (device_add/driver_register)
>>        |                         |
>> device_attach           device_initial_probe
>>        |                         |
>> __device_attach_driver    __device_attach_driver
>>        |
>> driver_probe_device
>>        |
>> really_probe
>>        |
>> dma_configure
>>
>> Similarly on the device/driver_unregister path __device_release_driver is
>> called which inturn calls dma_deconfigure.
>>
>> This patch changes the dma ops configuration time to probe time for
>> both OF and ACPI based devices.
>
>For all device types, inclusive of PCI, so please you have to:
>
>- Update the $SUBJECT
>- Copy linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>- Copy linux-acpi@vger.kernel org (on the series)

Sure, i will just see till tomorrow for any further comments and
repost with $SUBJECT modified and the lists

Regards,
 Sricharan

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