Re: [RFC PATCH] m68k: set dma and coherent masks for Macintosh SONIC based ethernet

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 07:59:37AM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> my preference would be Finn's patch introducing a m68k
> arch_setup_pdev_archdata(). It nicely preserves what bus code sets up
> prior to registering a platform device (important for Zorro devices
> using platform or mfd devices), and allows overriding by drivers that
> need it.

Let's go with those for now.

> 
> If ever a kernel-wide consensus is reached to move this setup to the
> generic arch_setup_pdev_archdata(), we can still back out his patch at
> that time. Finn found one counterexample where absence of DMA mask
> signaled 'do not use DMA', so I think moving the DMA mask setup to
> generic code is unlikely to happen any time.

This is the right thing to do in the long run, and I'll spend some time
auditing all dma_mask users for the next merge window.