On 2015/10/7 22:32, Vinod Koul wrote:
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:21:13PM +0800, Shawn Lin wrote:
- int (*device_get_quirks)(struct dma_chan *chan);
And why do we want to expose this to users? THis doesnt seem right!
Basically I agree not to expose dma's quirk to slave controllers...But, the fact I mentioned on cover letter explain the reasons why I have to let slave controllers know that they are working with a broken dma. It's a dilemma that if we don't want that to be exposed(let slave controllers' driver get the info via a API), we have to add broken quirk for all of them ,here and there, which seems to be a disaster:(
I would appreciate it if you could give me some suggestions at your earliest convenience. :)
A quirk may exists but should be handled inside the controller driver and do appropriate action. You don't tell users or expect them to handle these
I laready gave one re-read the above lines.
Anyway I went ahead and read the usage. You are setting the slave parameters for this. I can see two ways:
- Have the quirk to driver and based on quirk reset the slave settings when
they are set by client. 2. Put this in DT and set the dma properties based on these quirks and let driver and cleint be agnostic to it
+Mark Brown
Thanks for these.
The first one is hard for dma to distinguish "broken slave"(I2S/SPI/UART..) from the unbroken ones(block devices like mmc/SFC...). If all clients are broken for that, it's easy to reset the slave parameters in dma driver. Unfortunately, not always, at least for rockchips' Socs.
And before V4, I did pass quirks to clents from DT, but Mark thought we should avoid to get it from dt. Anyway, now I think about it again,
(1) dma drivers doesn't know the users who should use limited burst and who won't. That make it's impossible for dma drivers to handle it alone or expose new API of burst capabilities to clients. (2) It's inappropriate to expose quirks to clients.
so the only way I can see is to make some tricks from DT. I would prefer to add "burst limit" property for the broken slaves instead of quirks for them which I did before V4.
Something like:
&spi{ max-burst-len=<1>; }
How about? :)