Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] driver core: initialize a default DMA mask for platform device

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:32:04 +0200

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:49:13PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> because we have to support platform_device structures that are
>> statically allocated.
>
> This would be a good point to also get rid of the long-standing bodge in 
> platform_device_register_full().

platform_device_register_full looks odd to start with, especially
as the coumentation is rather lacking..

>>   +static void setup_pdev_archdata(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> Bikeshed: painting the generic DMA API properties as "archdata" feels a bit 
> off-target :/
>
>> +{
>> +	if (!pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask)
>> +		pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>> +	if (!pdev->dma_mask)
>> +		pdev->dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>> +	if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
>> +		pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dma_mask;
>> +	arch_setup_pdev_archdata(pdev);
>
> AFAICS m68k's implementation of that arch hook becomes entirely redundant 
> after this change, so may as well go. That would just leave powerpc's 
> actual archdata, which at a glance looks like it could probably be cleaned 
> up with not *too* much trouble.

Actually I think we can just kill both off.  At the point archdata
is indeed entirely misnamed.

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