>
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 12:47 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
>> If you can automatically infer the correct clock/interrupt/etc in order
>> to do DMA correctly, despite the fact that it wasn't explicitly spelled
>> out in the old DT, then the property is *not* a "required" property.
>> It's optional, and you have a default behaviour for when it's not
>> present.
>
> so inside the new version of driver-hwcrypto.c:
>
> if (irq_of_parse_and_map(...) == NO_IRQ) {
> switch (get_soc_model()) {
> case SOC1:
> irq = 51;
> break;
>
> case SOC2:
> irq = 62;
> break;
>
> [...]
> }
> }
If you are correct to insist that DMA needs yo be supported in the new
driver *even* with old firmware, then yes, maybe.
The alternative is a quirk to "fix" the DT up on the affected boards and
not actually doing the special cases in the driver itself. But that can be
seen as an implementation detail.
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dwmw2
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