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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] ARM: dts: exynos: use proper
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To:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
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On 28/04/2022 11:50, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On 27.04.2022 17:58, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> pl330 DMA controller bindings documented 'dma-channels' and
>> 'dma-requests' properties (without leading hash sign), so fix the DTS to
>> match the bindings.
>>
>> Reported-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> 
> Are those properties really needed for PL330 driver on Exynos SoCs? I've 
> removed them and I still see the proper values read from registers and 
> reported in the log (Exynos4210):
> 
> dma-pl330 12680000.dma-controller: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-141330
> dma-pl330 12680000.dma-controller:       DBUFF-32x4bytes Num_Chans-8 
> Num_Peri-32 Num_Events-32
> dma-pl330 12690000.dma-controller: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-141330
> dma-pl330 12690000.dma-controller:       DBUFF-32x4bytes Num_Chans-8 
> Num_Peri-32 Num_Events-32
> dma-pl330 12850000.dma-controller: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-141330
> dma-pl330 12850000.dma-controller:       DBUFF-64x8bytes Num_Chans-8 
> Num_Peri-1 Num_Events-32
> 
> I also don't see any code that would read those properties. IMHO they 
> should be simply removed at all, at least for the PL330 related nodes.

In current Linux implementation they indeed are not used. Nothing parses
them. However:
1. They describe (hopefully correct) the hardware.
2. They might be used by other implementations of pl330 driver.

I would not remove them from existing sources, but indeed maybe there is
no need to add for new files.

Best regards,
Krzysztof