Arnd Bergmann writes: > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 1:50:48 PM CEST Felipe Balbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Arnd Bergmann writes: >> > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9:40:19 AM CEST Felipe Balbi wrote: >> >> >> >> this only solves the problem for DT devices. Legacy devices and >> >> PCI-based systems will still suffer from the same problem. At least for >> >> dwc3, I will only be taking patches that solve the problem for all >> >> users, not a subset of them. >> > >> > I don't think legacy devices are a worry, because they wouldn't >> > have this problem. For the PCI case, you are right that it cannot >> > work, in particular for machines that have complex IOMMU setup. >> > >> > Some architectures (at least arm64 and sparc) check the bus_type of >> > a device in order to find the correct set of dma_map_ops for that >> > device, so there is no real way to handle this as long as you >> > pass a platform_device into an API that expects a pci_device. >> >> Then I guess we're left with adding a "struct device *dma_dev" to struct >> dwc3 and trying to figure out if we should use parent or self. Does >> anybody see any problems with that? > > I think we actually need the device pointer in the usb_hcd structure, > so it can be passed in these API calls from the USB core that's for host side. I'm concerned about peripheral side > as these are all called on behalf of the host controller node. > Looking for more instances of hcd->self.controller, I find this > instance: > > drivers/usb/core/hcd.c: struct usb_phy *phy = usb_get_phy_dev(hcd->self.controller, 0); > drivers/usb/core/hcd.c: struct phy *phy = phy_get(hcd->self.controller, "usb"); > > I'm unsure which device pointer we want here, but I suspect this also > needs to be the one that has the device node in order to make the lookup > of the phy structure by device node work right. Can you clarify how > this works today? sounds correct to me. -- balbi