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From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: liu kaiwei <liukaiwei086@gmail.com>
Cc: Kaiwei Liu <kaiwei.liu@unisoc.com>,
	Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
	dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Wenming Wu <wenming.wu@unisoc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: sprd: delete enable opreation in probe
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:10:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXb1RWaFWHVDx1wV@matsya> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOgAA6FzZ4q=rdmh8ySJRhojkGCgyV4PVjT6JAOUix+CF9PFtw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06-12-23, 17:32, liu kaiwei wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 9:11 PM Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 02-11-23, 20:16, Kaiwei Liu wrote:
> > > From: "kaiwei.liu" <kaiwei.liu@unisoc.com>
> >
> > Typo is subject line
> >
> > >
> > > In the probe of dma, it will allocate device memory and do some
> > > initalization settings. All operations are only at the software
> > > level and don't need the DMA hardware power on. It doesn't need
> > > to resume the device and set the device active as well. here
> > > delete unnecessary operation.
> >
> > Don't you need to read or write to the device? Without enable that wont
> > work right?
> >
> 
> Yes, it doesn't need to read or write to the device in the probe of DMA.
> We will enable the DMA when allocating the DMA channel.

So you will probe even if device is not present! I think it makes sense
to access device registers in probe!

-- 
~Vinod

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-11 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-02 12:16 [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: sprd: delete enable opreation in probe Kaiwei Liu
2023-11-24 13:11 ` Vinod Koul
2023-12-06  9:32   ` liu kaiwei
2023-12-11 11:40     ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2023-12-19  5:21       ` liu kaiwei
2023-12-19  7:00         ` Baolin Wang

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