Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] iommu/tegra-smmu: Rework .probe_device and .attach_dev

[Dmitry Osipenko]

05.10.2020 10:13, Thierry Reding пишет:
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> Have you also seen that sun50i-iommu does look up the SMMU from a
> phandle using of_find_device_by_node()? So I think you've shown yourself
> that even "modern" drivers avoid global pointers and look up via
> phandle.

I have no problem with the lookup by phandle and I'm all for it. It's
now apparent to me that you completely missed my point, but that should
be my fault that I haven't conveyed it properly from the start. I just
wanted to avoid the incompatible DT changes which could break older DTs
+ I simply wanted to improve the older code without introducing new
features, that's it.

Anyways, after yours comments I started to look at how the interconnect
patches could be improved and found new things, like that OPPs now
support ICC and that EMC has a working EMC_STAT, I also discovered
syscon and simple-mfd. This means that we won't need the global pointers
at all neither for SMMU, nor for interconnect, nor for EMC drivers :)