On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 16:07 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Ah, ok, it's a scsi core thing, not a driver core thing, that's less > confusing now. For a "fallback" of a platform device, if you switch the > lines around you should be fine, something like this patch perhaps: > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c > index 3cbb57a8b846..d8d3b294f5bc 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c > @@ -218,16 +218,16 @@ int scsi_add_host_with_dma(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct device *dev, > goto fail; > > if (!shost->shost_gendev.parent) > - shost->shost_gendev.parent = dev ? dev : &platform_bus; > - if (!dma_dev) > - dma_dev = shost->shost_gendev.parent; > - > - shost->dma_dev = dma_dev; > + shost->shost_gendev.parent = dev; > > error = device_add(&shost->shost_gendev); > if (error) > goto out; > > + if (!dma_dev) > + dma_dev = shost->shost_gendev.parent; > + shost->dma_dev = dma_dev; > + > pm_runtime_set_active(&shost->shost_gendev); > pm_runtime_enable(&shost->shost_gendev); > device_enable_async_suspend(&shost->shost_gendev); But this will still make shost->dma_dev == NULL in the cases James quoted: On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 15:46 +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > Yes, for DMA purposes, the parent cannot now be NULL; we'll get a panic > in the DMA transfers if it is. A lot of the legacy ISA device on x86 > and I thought some ARM SOC devices don't pass in the parent device, so > we hang them off a known parent. > > You can grep for it; these are the devices that will begin to panic if > you apply this patch: > > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c: error = scsi_add_host(host, NULL); > drivers/scsi/a2091.c: error = scsi_add_host(instance, NULL); > drivers/scsi/a3000.c: error = scsi_add_host(instance, NULL); > drivers/scsi/aha152x.c: if( scsi_add_host(shpnt, NULL) ) { > drivers/scsi/gdth.c: error = scsi_add_host(shp, NULL); > drivers/scsi/gdth.c: error = scsi_add_host(shp, NULL); > drivers/scsi/gvp11.c: error = scsi_add_host(instance, NULL); > drivers/scsi/imm.c: err = scsi_add_host(host, NULL); > drivers/scsi/pcmcia/fdomain_stub.c: if (scsi_add_host(host, NULL)) > drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.c: ret = scsi_add_host (host, NULL); > drivers/scsi/pcmcia/qlogic_stub.c: if (scsi_add_host(shost, NULL)) > drivers/scsi/pcmcia/sym53c500_cs.c: if (scsi_add_host(host, NULL)) > drivers/scsi/ppa.c: err = scsi_add_host(host, NULL); > drivers/scsi/qlogicfas.c: if (scsi_add_host(hreg, NULL)) > drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c: error = scsi_add_host(shost, NULL); > drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c: err = scsi_add_host(host, NULL); Maybe the DMA API should be coping with NULL device? It seems to handle it in a half of the methods and fails in the other half... Pawel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html