[PATCH v2 01/10] dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: Switch dma-names order

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com
Tue Mar 21 15:17:28 PDT 2023


On 3/22/23 00:09, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> Commit 370f696e4474 ("dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: add dma &
>> dma-names properties") documented dma-names property to handle Allwinner
>> D1 dtbs_check warnings, but relies on the rx->tx ordering, which is the
>> reverse of what a different board expects:
>>
>>    rk3326-odroid-go2.dtb: serial at ff030000: dma-names:0: 'rx' was expected
>>
>> A quick and incomplete check shows the inconsistency is present in many
>> other DTS files:
> 
>> The initial proposed solution was to allow a flexible dma-names order in
>> the binding, due to potential ABI breakage concerns after fixing the DTS
>> files. But luckily the Allwinner boards are not really affected, since
>> all of them are using a shared DMA channel for rx and tx:
> 
>> Switch dma-names order to tx->rx as the first step in fixing the
>> inconsistency. The remaining DTS fixes will be handled by separate
>> patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> 
> Thanks for doing all of the switch overs too. I should've probably
> broadened my searching beyond the allwinner platforms when I initially
> added this, so yeah, thanks.

Thanks for the quick review! And no worries, I'm glad I could help, 
hopefully I didn't miss anything..



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