Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Make use of DDW even if it does not map the partition
From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 20:31:47 EST
On 02/07/2020 09:48, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 16:57 -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
>>> It is not necessarily "direct" anymore as the name suggests, you may
>>> want to change that. DMA64_PROPNAME, may be. Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, you are right.
>> I will change this for next version, also changing the string name to
>> reflect this.
>>
>> -#define DIRECT64_PROPNAME "linux,direct64-ddr-window-info"
>> +#define DMA64_PROPNAME "linux,dma64-ddr-window-info"
>>
>> Is that ok?
>>
>> Thank you for helping!
>
> In fact, there is a lot of places in this file where it's called direct
> window. Should I replace everything?
> Should it be in a separated patch?
If it looks simple and you write a nice commit log explaining all that
and why you are not reusing the existing ibm,dma-window property (to
provide a clue what "reset" will reset to? is there any other reason?)
for that - sure, do it :)
--
Alexey