[PATCH 1/9] dma: pl330: rip out broken, redundant ID probing

[Jassi Brar]

On 11 June 2013 00:04, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> The PL330 driver probes the peripheral and primecell IDs of the device to
> make sure that it is indeed an AMBA PL330. However, it does this by
> making byte accesses to a device mapping of the word-aligned ID
> registers, which is either UNPREDICTABLE or generates an alignment fault
> (depending on the presence of the virtualisation extensions).
>
> Rather than fix this code, we can actually rip most of it out and let
> the AMBA bus driver correctly do the probing for us.
>
Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>