Re: [RFC PATCH] m68k: set dma and coherent masks for Macintosh SONIC based ethernet

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hi Geert,

my preference would be Finn's patch introducing a m68k
arch_setup_pdev_archdata(). It nicely preserves what bus code sets up
prior to registering a platform device (important for Zorro devices
using platform or mfd devices), and allows overriding by drivers that
need it.

If ever a kernel-wide consensus is reached to move this setup to the
generic arch_setup_pdev_archdata(), we can still back out his patch at
that time. Finn found one counterexample where absence of DMA mask
signaled 'do not use DMA', so I think moving the DMA mask setup to
generic code is unlikely to happen any time.

Just my $0.02 ...

Cheers,

  MIchael

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:15 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 May 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>> Am 27.05.2018 um 17:49 schrieb Finn Thain:
>>> > On Sun, 27 May 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> That should have fixed the warning already ...
>>> >
>>> > It's still not fixed (hence my "acked-by" for Geunter's patch).
>>> >
>>>
>>> Odd - does link order still matter even though the
>>> arch_setup_dev_archdata() function from the core platform code is
>>> declared as a weak symbol?
>>>
>>> I'll see what I can find out on elgar ...
>>>
>>
>> Any one of the numerous patches/rfcs/suggestions that I sent will avoid
>> the WARN splat.
>>
>> When I said "it's still not fixed", what I meant to say was, "it's still
>> not fixed in mainline and no proposed fix was accepted to the best of my
>> knowledge".
>
> Indeed.
>
> Do we have a consensus on the way forward? The merge window for
> v4.18 will open soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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