Re: musb: handling Blackfin anomaly 05000450

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:17, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:09:38AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:04, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:57:21AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:42, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:26:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> >> >> any ideas on how to get this workaround merged ? Âanother idea i had
>> >> >> >> was that we could add a hook to the top of dma_channel_program to let
>> >> >> >> targets muck with the arguments ... the Blackfin code would just need
>> >> >> >> to do something like this at the start of the func:
>> >> >> >> + Â if (musb_channel->transmit && channel->desired_mode == 1)
>> >> >> >> + Â Â Â len = len - (len % packet_sz);
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > is that IP-related or Blackfin-only ? I mean, does this bug affects all
>> >> >> > MUSB of a particular RTL version or only the Blackfin ones ?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> our understanding of the issue is that it is Blackfin specific. Âseems
>> >> >> to be related to our internal bus/dma connections to the musb ip.
>> >> >
>> >> > ok. So we need a way to understand we need to apply that workaround only
>> >> > on blackfin. There we go with another blackfin-only driver flag...
>> >>
>> >> seems a shame to add a flag that will always evaluate to false for
>> >> non-Blackfin targets yet needs to be runtime checked for everyone ...
>> >
>> > I'm not keen in having ifdefs... Any other suggestions ?
>>
>> originally i was going to hijack the dma_channel_program pointer in
>> the Blackfin init, but dma_controller_create gets called too late for
>> that.
>>
>> so i was thinking a new func pointer in musb_platform_ops like
>> "pre_channel_program" which the normal dma_channel_program function
>> would check/call at the top. Âso i guess you might end up with the
>> same overhead for the most part (a logic test must occur), but at
>> least this way other people would be able to extend it if their own
>> needs called for it ?
>
> Could be. MUSB has so many different bugs that most likely someone else
> might need this anyway.

since we seem to agree on this, i'll send a patch :)
-mike
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