On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:34 PM Ulf Hansson [off-list ref] wrote:

It's currently the amba driver's responsibility to initialize the pointer,
dma_parms, for its corresponding struct device. The benefit with this
approach allows us to avoid the initialization and to not waste memory for
the struct device_dma_parameters, as this can be decided on a case by case
basis.

However, it has turned out that this approach is not very practical. Not
only does it lead to open coding, but also to real errors. In principle
callers of dma_set_max_seg_size() doesn't check the error code, but just
assumes it succeeds.

For these reasons, let's do the initialization from the common amba bus at
the device registration point. This also follows the way the PCI devices
are being managed, see pci_device_add().

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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