linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 3/5] OF: Add missing I/O range exception for indirect-IO devices

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:57:09 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        "zhichang.yuan" <yuanzhichang@...ilicon.com>
CC:     <catalin.marinas@....com>, <will.deacon@....com>,
        <frowand.list@...il.com>, <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        <rafael@...nel.org>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
        <brian.starkey@....com>, <olof@...om.net>, <arnd@...db.de>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>, <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>, <minyard@....org>,
        <liviu.dudau@....com>, <zourongrong@...il.com>,
        <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>, <zhichang.yuan02@...il.com>,
        <kantyzc@....com>, <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 3/5] OF: Add missing I/O range exception for
 indirect-IO devices

On 27/01/2017 22:03, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 03:05:23PM +0800, zhichang.yuan wrote:
>> There are some special ISA/LPC devices that work on a specific I/O range where
>> it is not correct to specify a 'ranges' property in DTS parent node as cpu
>> addresses translated from DTS node are only for memory space on some
>> architectures, such as Arm64. Without the parent 'ranges' property, current
>> of_translate_address() return an error.
>> Here we add special handlings for this case.
>> During the OF address translation, some checkings will be perfromed to
>> identify whether the device node is registered as indirect-IO. If yes, the I/O
>> translation will be done in a different way from that one of PCI MMIO.
>> In this way, the I/O 'reg' property of the special ISA/LPC devices will be
>> parsed correctly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhichang.yuan <yuanzhichang@...ilicon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> Shouldn't this be Reviewed-by?
>

The background is that Zhichang is following a sketch of a re-worked 
driver from Arnd, which Arnd gave Signed-off-by. But this patch does not 
follow it verbatim.

I think this patchset should be resent without Arnd's signature. Or Arnd 
may kindly review and say it's ok.

John

> Otherwise, looks fine to me.
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>
>> ---
>>  drivers/of/address.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>  1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>
> .
>