linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 12/16] drivers: iommu: arm-smmu: split probe functions into DT/generic portions

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Message-ID: <20161118160006.GW13470@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:00:06 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>, Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>,
        Nate Watterson <nwatters@...eaurora.org>,
        Prem Mallappa <prem.mallappa@...adcom.com>,
        Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@....com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 12/16] drivers: iommu: arm-smmu: split probe functions
 into DT/generic portions

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:29:32PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Current ARM SMMU probe functions intermingle HW and DT probing
> in the initialization functions to detect and programme the ARM SMMU
> driver features. In order to allow probing the ARM SMMU with other
> firmwares than DT, this patch splits the ARM SMMU init functions into
> DT and HW specific portions so that other FW interfaces (ie ACPI) can
> reuse the HW probing functions and skip the DT portion accordingly.
> 
> This patch implements no functional change, only code reshuffling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Although I'd also like Robin to have a look at this.

Will