Re: [PATCH] USB: set device dma_mask without reference to global data

[Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/07/2013 08:54 PM, Peter Chen wrote:
>>
>> This probably could be initialized from some DT property. However,
>> there's no such property defined right now, and considering that DT is
>> supposed to be an ABI, we'd always need the code in this patch as a
>> fallback for DTs that were created before any such property was defined.
>>
>> Equally, since the data is SoC-specific rather than board-specific, and
>> is even fairly unlikely to vary between SoC versions since these values
>> are all 0xffffffff anyway, I don't really see much point in putting it
>> into DT, rather than just putting the static data into the driver.
> 
> I mean there is already dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
> at function of_platform_device_create, why can't add
> dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask after that?
> 
> If DT core can do above things, can we delete dma_mask assignment
> at every driver?

Perhaps. However, such a change has a much larger potential for regressions.

I would suggest going with the current patch for 3.10 and any later
backports in order to reduce risk. We can revisit better cleanup for
later kernels.