[PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: qcom: Drop hidma DT support

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:51:36PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 4/23/2024 12:14 PM, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > The DT support in hidma has been broken since commit 37fa4905d22a
> > ("dmaengine: qcom_hidma: simplify DT resource parsing") in 2018. The
> > issue is the of_address_to_resource() calls bail out on success rather
> > than failure. This driver is for a defunct QCom server platform where
> > DT use was limited to start with. As it seems no one has noticed the
> > breakage, just remove the DT support altogether.
> 
> I disagree here. This seems to have been broken your patch.
> 
> dmaengine: qcom_hidma: simplify DT resource parsing · torvalds/linux at 37fa490
> (github.com) <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/37fa4905d22a903f9fe120016fe7d6a2ece8d736>

That's the same commit that was mentioned in the first sentence of the
commit message.  The commit is from Jan 2018 but the oldest supported
kernel (v4.19) is from Oct 2018.  If someone really cares about this
code then they should be testing supported kernels...

regards,
dan carpenter