[PATCH 1/2] ARM: remove dmacap,memset from Device tree binding

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Aug 5 08:26:38 EDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:53:41AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 02:09:04AM +0100, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > DT Maintainers,
> > 
> > It's been a week with no comment.  Shall I assume it's ok to apply
> > this?
> 
> Apologies for the delay, still catching up on binding review.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure on this. The property described is still true for
> the device, even if the kernel's not using that information now. My
> feeling would be to keep them, unless there's a plan to better describe
> the properties of the XOR channels.
> 
> It shouldn't harm the kernel to have some properties we don't use at
> this point in time. If we want to reorganise the binding, the first step
> would be to make the properties as deprecated, rather than removing them
> outright.

Ok, that matches what I was originally thinking.  The bindings are
supposed to be OS-agnostic, so the fact that we no longer use it is
irrelevant.  The hardware still has the capability.

Sebastian, I'm just going to drop this patch.

thx,

Jason.

> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:31:04AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:54:12PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > > > DMA_MEMSET support has been removed, so update the device tree files
> > > > and corresponding binding documentation for Marvell SoCs.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> 
> > > > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> > > > Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> > > > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > > > Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> 
> > > > Cc: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org 
> > > > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org 
> > > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org 
> > > > ---
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt |    2 --
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370.dtsi                |    2 --
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi                 |    2 --
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/dove.dtsi                      |    2 --
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi                  |    2 --
> > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x.dtsi                   |    1 -
> > > >  6 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Adding the new devicetree ml to the Cc:
> > > 
> > > I'm fine with the changes to the dts{i} files, but I think the binding
> > > document should be handled differently.
> > > 
> > > thx,
> > > 
> > > Jason.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> > > > index 7c6cb7f..68f7004 100644
> > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mv-xor.txt
> > > > @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ properties:
> > > >  
> > > >  And the following optional properties:
> > > >  - dmacap,memcpy to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of memcpy operations
> > > > -- dmacap,memset to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of memset operations
> > > >  - dmacap,xor to indicate that the XOR channel is capable of xor operations
> > > >  
> > > >  Example:
> > > > @@ -35,6 +34,5 @@ xor at d0060900 {
> > > >  	      interrupts = <52>;
> > > >  	      dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  	      dmacap,xor;
> > > > -	      dmacap,memset;
> > > >  	};
> > > >  };
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370.dtsi
> > > > index fa3dfc6..a315ad1 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370.dtsi
> > > > @@ -132,7 +132,6 @@
> > > >  					interrupts = <52>;
> > > >  					dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  					dmacap,xor;
> > > > -					dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				};
> > > >  			};
> > > >  
> > > > @@ -151,7 +150,6 @@
> > > >  					interrupts = <95>;
> > > >  					dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  					dmacap,xor;
> > > > -					dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				};
> > > >  			};
> > > >  
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi
> > > > index 416eb94..4b3dd56 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi
> > > > @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@
> > > >  					interrupts = <52>;
> > > >  					dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  					dmacap,xor;
> > > > -					dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				};
> > > >  			};
> > > >  
> > > > @@ -134,7 +133,6 @@
> > > >  					interrupts = <95>;
> > > >  					dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  					dmacap,xor;
> > > > -					dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				};
> > > >  			};
> > > >  
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/dove.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/dove.dtsi
> > > > index 6cab468..2cef34f 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/dove.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/dove.dtsi
> > > > @@ -232,7 +232,6 @@
> > > >  
> > > >  			channel1 {
> > > >  				interrupts = <40>;
> > > > -				dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  				dmacap,xor;
> > > >  			};
> > > > @@ -253,7 +252,6 @@
> > > >  
> > > >  			channel1 {
> > > >  				interrupts = <43>;
> > > > -				dmacap,memset;
> > > >  				dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  				dmacap,xor;
> > > >  			};
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > > > index 9809fc1..078637c 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > > > @@ -126,7 +126,6 @@
> > > >  			      interrupts = <6>;
> > > >  			      dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  			      dmacap,xor;
> > > > -			      dmacap,memset;
> > > >  			};
> > > >  		};
> > > >  
> > > > @@ -146,7 +145,6 @@
> > > >  			      interrupts = <8>;
> > > >  			      dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  			      dmacap,xor;
> > > > -			      dmacap,memset;
> > > >  			};
> > > >  		};
> > > >  
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x.dtsi
> > > > index 892c64e..f82ece7 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x.dtsi
> > > > @@ -120,7 +120,6 @@
> > > >  			      interrupts = <31>;
> > > >  			      dmacap,memcpy;
> > > >  			      dmacap,xor;
> > > > -			      dmacap,memset;
> > > >  			};
> > > >  		};
> > > >  
> > > > -- 
> > > > 1.7.2.5
> > > > 
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