Hi Rob, I somehow missed this patch.
2017-07-20 17:06 GMT+02:00 Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clem...@free-electrons.com>: > Hi Rob, > > On jeu., juil. 20 2017, Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> wrote: > > (Adding Marcin in CC who wrote this part of code) > >> Nothing sets ever sets data, so it is always NULL. Remove it as this is >> the only user of data ptr in the whole kernel, and it is going to be >> removed from struct device_node. > > Actually the use of device_node.data ptr is not bogus and it is set in > mvneta_bm_probe: > http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c#L433 > > Your patch will break the BM support on this driver. So if you need to > remove this data ptr, then you have to offer an alternative for it. Exactly, this breaks NETA operation with BM block. The data is set in: dn->data = priv; platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv); At the time I couldn't have found out a nicer solution to make work two different HW blocks (network controller and buffer manager). There was once a patchset enabling calling another driver's probe basing on the phandle and of_node information, but after it reached ~v7 it eventually didn't make it to the tree. Do you any way for solving such dependencies, if you really want to get rid of this field? Best regards, Marcin > > Thanks, > > Gregory > >> >> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> >> --- >> Probably there's a better fix here to actually enable the h/w buffer >> manager. >> >> I intend to take this thru the DT tree as patch 2 is dependent on this. >> >> Rob >> >> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c >> b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c >> index 0aab74c2a209..5624f4b49f9d 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c >> @@ -4296,8 +4296,8 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) >> >> /* Obtain access to BM resources if enabled and already initialized */ >> bm_node = of_parse_phandle(dn, "buffer-manager", 0); >> - if (bm_node && bm_node->data) { >> - pp->bm_priv = bm_node->data; >> + if (bm_node) { >> + pp->bm_priv = NULL; >> err = mvneta_bm_port_init(pdev, pp); >> if (err < 0) { >> dev_info(&pdev->dev, "use SW buffer management\n"); >> -- >> 2.11.0 >> > > -- > Gregory Clement, Free Electrons > Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux > development, consulting, training and support. > http://free-electrons.com
