linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:23:56 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Fisher <david.fisher1@...opsys.com>,
	"Thang Q. Nguyen" <tqnguyen@....com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev

On Thursday 28 April 2016 15:16:12 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:37:08AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:
> > >    pointer and pass that in platform_data. This is really easy, it's
> > 
> > Sorry but passing a struct device pointer in platform_data is
> > ridiculous. Not to mention that, as I said before, we can't assume which
> > device to pass to xhci_plat in the first place. It might be dwc->dev and
> > it might be dwc->dev->parent.
> 
> +1.  Passing an unref-counted struct device through platform data is
> totally mad, Arnd you're off your rocker if you think that's a good
> idea.  What's more is that there's no way to properly refcount the
> thing.

It's the parent device (or NULL), there is no way it can ever go away as
it's already refcounted through the device subsystem by the creation
of the child device.

I do realize that it's a hack, but the idea is to get rid of that
as soon as possibly by fixing the way the xhci device is probe so
we no longer need to fake a platform_device as the child here and
can just use the device itself.

	Arnd