Re: [PATCH v2] bcma: use of_dma_configure() to set initial dma mask

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 05:34:21 EST


On Monday, September 5, 2016 11:34:14 PM CEST RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
> On 17 March 2016 at 10:39, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > While fixing another bug, I noticed that bcma manually sets up
> > a dma_mask pointer for its child devices. We have a generic
> > helper for that now, which should be able to cope better with
> > any variations that might be needed to deal with cache coherency,
> > unusual DMA address offsets, iommus, or limited DMA masks, none
> > of which are currently handled here.
> >
> > This changes the core to use the of_dma_configure(), like
> > we do for platform devices that are probed directly from
> > DT.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I applied this patch and tested on BCM47081 based device. I still got
> bgmac working which surely uses DMA.

Thanks!

> There is only 1 ARM wireless SoC
> using bcma (BCM47198) but its WiFi core isn't supported by b43.
>
> Any tips what else to test? SPI core/driver doesn't use DMA. Maybe
> NAND core does, but we don't use it.
>

If there is nothing else using this, then the patch won't cause
a regression ;-)

Arnd