Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6dl: disable dma support for spi on i.mx6dl

[Robin Gong]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:50:06AM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 16.09.2014, 11:41 +0800 schrieb Robin Gong:
> > Hi Lucas,
> >   I understood your concern,but looks we have to break old DT.
> 
> Sorry, but this isn't going to happen. And honestly I don't even see the
> need to do so.
> 
> > Our old DT
> > support SPI DMA on i.mx6q/dl(v2,b3810c3dc1bcbc6a), but the DMA support patch
> > for SPI driver is still in reviewing(v6).
> 
> So this means now is the time to fix this driver patch to not enable DMA
> on imx6dl. Nobody will experience any breakage in this case.
>
Sorry, i.mx6q and i.mx6dl are totally same, not only IP but also clock. So we
can't distinguish them except for different compatible name....
> > So the violation you mentioned comes
> > if someone use the DT during the time(from v2 to spi driver patch upstreamed).
> >   The different behaviors on different chips(only i.mxdl can't pass strength
> > test) are just found from last month, this is why I sent the patch for disable
> > SPI DMA support on i.mx6dl during I sent v6 patch for spi driver. I think that's
> > make sense, because DTs are also in development, new difference between different
> > chips maybe found in the future although they share the same IP....
> >   Yes, I can check cpu type by looking at DT in spi driver, but it's not nice.
> 
> Yeah it would have been nicer if we had an explicit DT compatible for
> the imx6dl ecspi version, but it's not there, so we have to cope with
> this.
> 
> > So I'm afraid that we have to break the old DTs in the gap between the two
> > levels patch accepted cycle.
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:41:13AM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2014, 13:30 +0800 schrieb Robin Gong:
> > > > There is one weird data in rxfifo after one full rx/tx transfer
> > > > done sometimes. It looks a design issue and hard to workaround
> > > > totally, so disable dma functhion here. And will re-enable it
> > > > once the root cause found.
> > > > 
> > > Sorry, I'm late to this as Shawn seems to already have picked up this
> > > patch, but this isn't the right way to fix the problem.
> > > 
> > > We made it clear at kernel summit last year that we try to not break
> > > existing DTs as booting a new kernel with an old DT is a valid use case.
> > > While you don't strictly violate this rule what you do here is only
> > > fixing systems booting with a new DT while leaving others broken.
> > > 
> > > If you are working around a hardware problem please disable DMA support
> > > in the driver. This will also allow you to enable it again, if you find
> > > another workaround without touching the DT again.
> > > 
> > > So this patch gets a NAK from me.
> > > 
> 
> Regards,
> Lucas
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