Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 10 authors, 2021-04-21

Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for optional properties

From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-02-10 01:03:47
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 02:26:40PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
Not all DT bindings are mandatory bindings. Add support for optional DT
bindings and mark iommus, iommu-map, dmas as optional DT bindings.
I don't think we can say these are optional or not. It's got to be a 
driver decision somehow.

For example, if IOMMU is optional, what happens with this sequence:

driver probes without IOMMU
driver calls dma_map_?()
IOMMU driver probes
h/w accesses DMA buffer --> BOOM!
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