netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [v4] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:00:35 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Cc:	Vikram Sethi <vikrams@...eaurora.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	sdharia@...eaurora.org,
	Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@...eaurora.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>, cov@...eaurora.org,
	gavidov@...eaurora.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	andrew@...n.ch, Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [v4] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller
 driver

Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> For platform devices being populated via from DT you will pass:
> of_platform_bus_create()
>    of_platform_device_create_pdata()
>      of_dma_configure()
>
> Which calls of_dma_get_range() to acquire this information from the
> dma-ranges property and set up the dma ops and properties.

This seems excessive.  I have to create a platform bus just to configure 
the DMA mask?  Most drivers just call dma_set_mask and give it a number, 
and that's not device-tree specific.  I also need to come up with a way 
to get this to work on ACPI.

I just seems like a lot of work only because I need to determine at 
runtime what my DMA mask is.  I also don't see any drivers that call 
of_dma_configure().

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