[PATCH v2 11/18] iommu: exynos: remove useless device_add/remove callbacks

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Wed Oct 22 02:54:34 PDT 2014


Hello,

On 2014-10-22 11:26, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2014 11:15:00 Alban Browaeys wrote:
>> Le mardi 16 septembre 2014 à 13:54 +0200, Marek Szyprowski a écrit :
>>> The driver doesn't need to do anything important in device add/remove
>>> callbacks, because initialization will be done from device-tree specific
>>> callbacks added later. IOMMU groups created by current code were never
>>> used.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
>>
>> The exyons iommu init fails if those are removed, that is it never reach
>> init_done:
>> 1. exynos_iommu_setup
>> 2. - exynos_iommu_init
>> 3. ---bus_set_iommu
>> 4. ------ add_iommu_group
>>
>> that is (4) add_iommu_group returns ENODEV to bus_set_iommu, the latter
>> doing so to exynos_iommu_init. Which thus error out before the init_done
>> is set to true.
> On a related note, I found that the exynos iommu driver does not check
> for the presence of an exynos iommu before calling bus_set_iommu,
> and this breaks multiplatform kernels.
>
> Please fix.

For the time being please apply this patch: 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/163

The proper solution will be applied when driver will be adapted to common of
iommu support, which is still under discussion.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland




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