From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K Poulose) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 16:49:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2 12/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Allow commandline option to override SG use In-Reply-To: <20180503204035.GA15555@xps15> References: <1525165857-11096-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1525165857-11096-13-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <20180503204035.GA15555@xps15> Message-ID: <3610e97f-87aa-3bfe-c89d-161a6bd09047@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 03/05/18 21:40, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:10:42AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: >> The Coresight TMC-ETR SG mode could be unsafe on a platform where >> the ETR is not properly connected to account for READ operations. >> We use a DT node property to indicate if the system is safe. >> This patch also provides a command line parameter to "force" >> the use of SG mode to override the firmware information. >> >> Cc: Mathieu Poirier >> Cc: Mike Leach >> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose >> --- >> Hi >> >> This is more of a debug patch for people who may want to >> test their platform without too much of hacking. I am not >> too keen on pushing this patch in. > > I am not either nor do I personally need it to test this feature. We can leave > it in for now (and subsequent version) if you need it but we agree that I won't > queue it to my tree when the time comes. OK, I was expecting this view from most of us here. I will drop it from my series in the next version. Cheers Suzuki