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Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 2021 14:13:02 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
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        "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@sai.msu.ru>,
        Robert Foss <robert.foss@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: pwc: Fix the URB buffer allocation
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Hi Takashi

> Indeed, looks so.  In most cases, this doesn't matter since both point
> to the same device object.  In some cases like xhci-plat HCD, they
> differ.  And sysdev  might be a better choice from the consistency
> POV.
> 
> But this brought an interesting question, too.  eg. USB chipidea
> HCD uses platform devices for both controller and sysdev, and I
> couldn't find any DMA mask setup.  So, no matter what to use, the uwc
> driver would be broken on this...  Maybe it's just not covered.

Did you do a git bisect to see what actually broke it?  "1161db6776bd:
media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent DMA buffers for ISO transfer"
introduced the code, not the regression. If we understand the
regression, that might give us the answer about chipidea.

	    Andrew