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

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Oct 23 07:02:06 PDT 2014


On Wednesday 22 October 2014 11:54:34 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 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.
> 

The patch looks good.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Can you send it to the iommu maintainer please?

	Arnd



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