On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 01:08:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2014 11:36:15 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 05:34:54PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > We need to ensure that the IOMMUs in the system have a chance to perform
> > > some basic initialisation before we start adding masters to them.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds a call to of_iommu_init before of_platform_populate.
> > 
> > Why can't you call it from of_platform_populate() directly? That way it
> > would be usable for all architectures rather than just ARM. Eventually
> > we're going to need the same thing for 64-bit ARM (and possibly others
> > as well).
> 
> IIRC, of_platform_populate can be called multiple times, even recursively
> be drivers that populate their own child devices.

Indeed. Perhaps it could be conditionally called when root == NULL. But
perhaps that's not safe either. Anyway, I still think we shouldn't be
making this some randomly placed early initcall anyway.

Thierry

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