Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] spi: imx: defer spi initialization, if DMA engine is pending

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On 05.11.2015 09:59, Sascha Hauer wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 03:41:41PM +0100, Anton Bondarenko wrote:
From: Anton Bondarenko <anton_bondarenko@xxxxxxxxxx>

If SPI device supports DMA mode, but DMA controller is not yet
available due to e.g. a delay in the corresponding kernel module
initialization, retry to initialize SPI driver later on instead of
falling back into PIO only mode.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Bondarenko <anton_bondarenko@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ok, so 6/7 is only part of the deferral story. Maybe squash the two
patches into one?

Sascha

I would like to keep these two changes separately since I have a small concern about this exact change.

Let's assume such scenario:
- ECSPI configured to use DMA in device tree and DMA controller description specified. But there is no driver for this controller in kernel. In this case dmaengine will always return -EDEFER and driver postpone spi-imx initialization. So finally there will be no SPI support even in PIO mode. Or for example spi-imx will be compiled into kernel, but DMA controller driver will be on SPI-NOR based rootfs.

So the question is "Should we allow user to use incorrect combination of kernel configuration and DTS and work at least with some limitation?" Or should we try to guarantee device tree file requirement to use DMA.

Any thoughts?

Regards, Anton
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