ION DTS changes for HiKey in -next

[Mark Rutland]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 1/8/16 5:55 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:44:39PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:02:14PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:37:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>>>I was just looking at DTs in -next and noticed that there is a patch
> >>>>59dfafd03fc (arm64: dts: Add dts files to enable ION on Hi6220 SoC)
> >>>>which adds at DT doing something for ION.  Are we sure this should be
> >>>>going into the main production DT?  The bindings haven't been reviewed
> >>>>as far as I can tell, the matching driver is only in staging and hasn't
> >>>>been posted upstream.
> >>
> >>>Isn't "staging" upstream enough for this?  :)
> >>
> >>I wouldn't have thought so, DTs are supposed to be an ABI so we want
> >>proper review and having had a quick glance this doesn't look like it's
> >>a hardware description so it's not clear to me it should be in DT at all.
> >
> >Indeed.
> >
> >The driver and the binding before that don't really belong either,
> >I would have NAK'd those on devicetree at vger.kernel.org, though it
> >appears I either missed them or they never made it to that list.
> >
> > From my PoV there should not be a platform-specific ION binding. If we
> >need one at all, people should work on the proposed generic binding [1]
> >or figure out how to do this with the existing reserved-memory bindings.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mark.
> >
> >[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/6/854
> 
> I posted v2 back in November
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.driver-project.devel/80475)
> but there wasn't much in the way of review comments. More feedback there
> would be appreciated or I can resend.

A resend would be appeciated, as that's easier to reply to.

I'm still a little fuzzy on why this can't be done with reserved-memory,
but that's a discussion better left for the thread with the patches.

Thanks,
Mark.