Re: [PATCH 02/14] dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Separate chan/ctrl registers
From: Paul Burton <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-11 23:27:24
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From: Paul Burton <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-11 23:27:24
Also in:
dmaengine, linux-devicetree, lkml
Hi Vinod, On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 05:46:55PM +0530, Vinod wrote:
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- jzdma->base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res); - if (IS_ERR(jzdma->base)) - return PTR_ERR(jzdma->base); + jzdma->chn_base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res); + if (IS_ERR(jzdma->chn_base)) + return PTR_ERR(jzdma->chn_base); + + res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 1); + if (!res) { + dev_err(dev, "failed to get I/O memory\n"); + return -EINVAL; + }okay and this breaks if you happen to get probed on older DT. I think DT is treated as ABI so you need to continue support older method while finding if DT has split resourcesSee my response to PrasannaKumar. All the Ingenic-based boards do compile the devicetree within the kernel, so I think it's still fine to add breaking changes. I'll wait on @Rob to give his point of view on this, though. (It's not something hard to change, but I'd like to know what's the policy in that case. I have other DT-breaking patches to submit)The policy is that DT is an ABI and should not break :)
I think in general that's a good policy to have for compatibility, but
if it's known for certain that the DT for all users of a driver is
always built into the kernel then I don't see why we shouldn't feel free
to change a binding. I agree with Paul that it'd be interesting to hear
the DT binding maintainers take on this.
Thanks,
Paul