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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:44:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 1/2] documentation/iommu: Add description of
 Hisilicon System MMU binding
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On Friday 06 June 2014 08:48:26 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2014 21:37:09 Zhen Lei wrote:
> 
> > +- smmu-masters  : A list of phandles to device nodes representing bus
> > +                  masters for which the SMMU can provide a translation
> > +                  and their corresponding StreamIDs (see example below).
> > 
> 
> We're currently in the process of defining a generic binding for IOMMUs.
> 
> While the smmu-masters property was copied from an existing binding,
> I think we will end up migrating away from that towards a common way
> to express those things, and we shouldn't add another one doing this
> in a nonstandard way. Please have a look at the latest discussion
> about the iommu binding using #iommu-cells and a reference from the
> master to the iommu and see if you can migrate your code to use that.

Actually, nothing in 3.16 uses the broken binding yet, so I think
we can just declare it obsolete and remove it once the new binding
has been implemented.

	Arnd