Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thursday 28 April 2016 15:16:12 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:37:08AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > >    pointer and pass that in platform_data. This is really easy, it's
>> > 
>> > Sorry but passing a struct device pointer in platform_data is
>> > ridiculous. Not to mention that, as I said before, we can't assume which
>> > device to pass to xhci_plat in the first place. It might be dwc->dev and
>> > it might be dwc->dev->parent.
>> 
>> +1.  Passing an unref-counted struct device through platform data is
>> totally mad, Arnd you're off your rocker if you think that's a good
>> idea.  What's more is that there's no way to properly refcount the
>> thing.
>
> It's the parent device (or NULL), there is no way it can ever go away as
> it's already refcounted through the device subsystem by the creation
> of the child device.

you're assuming that based on what we have today. We could get into a
situation where we need to use a completely unrelated device and the
problem exists again.

> I do realize that it's a hack, but the idea is to get rid of that
> as soon as possibly by fixing the way the xhci device is probe so
> we no longer need to fake a platform_device as the child here and
> can just use the device itself.

okay, let me try to be extra clear here:

We will *not* remove the extra platform_device because it actually
*does* exist and helps me hide/abstract a bunch of details and make
assumptions about order of certain events. We have already gone through
that in the past when I explained why I wrote dwc3 the way it is; if you
need a refresher, there are mailing list archives for that.

Moreover, this same problem exists for anything under drivers/mfd. It
just so happens that they're usually some i2c or spi device which don't
do DMA by themselves.

-- 
balbi

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