Re: [PATCH 03/22] iommu: Propagate error in add_iommu_group

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jun 29 2015 - 10:06:48 EST


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:40AM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> The Rockchip iommu uses bus_set_ops to set its iommu-ops for the platform
> bus and currently returns -ENODEV if it encounters a platform_devices that
> does not have an iommu. As add_iommu_group ignored these returns
> till now this worked, but of course starts to fail now.
>
> All two invocations of the add_device callback ignored (or still ignore) the
> return value so I've come with the following small patch to fix the breakage
> that now exists in the 4.2 tree.
>
> There is probably a better solution possible in the longer term, likely
> similar to what Samsung does, but I'm not sure yet how this would work
> with our drm device that needs an iommu mapping without having an
> iommu (the iommus being attached to the crtc-components).

Btw, if you want to test the fix too, here is the link:

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2015-June/013508.html


Regards,

Joerg
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