Re: [RFC 2/2] i2c: sh_mobile: rework deferred probing

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Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> DMA is opt-in for this driver. So, we can't use deferred probing in
> probe, because our driver would get endlessly deferred if DMA support is
> compiled in but only the DMA driver is missing. Because we can't know
> when the DMA driver might show up, we always try again when a DMA
> transfer would be possible. The downside is that there is more overhead
> for setting up every DMA transfer.

... for setting up every PIO transfer?

Once DMA is available, it's just one extra variable check.

> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c
> index 636f2297143a..ea7b99212fa6 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ struct sh_mobile_i2c_data {
>         int sr;
>         bool send_stop;
>
> +       struct resource *res;

I thinkk you can just store dma_addr_t port_addr here.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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