[PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Dont require a dma_ops struct to set dma mask

[Scott Wood]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:02:56 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> The only reason to require a dma_ops struct is to see if it has
> implemented set_dma_mask.  If not we can fall back to setting the mask
> directly.
> 
> This resolves an issue with how to sequence the setting of a DMA mask
> for platform devices.  Before we had an issue in that we have no way of
> setting the DMA mask before the various low level bus notifiers get
> called that might check it (swiotlb).
> 
> So now we can do:
> 
> 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("foobar", 0);
> 	dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(37));
> 	platform_device_register(pdev);

Despite what Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt says, it looks like
platform_device_add() is what you want after platform_device_alloc().
Otherwise device_initialize() gets called twice, as would a call to the
archdata hook if one is added to platform_device_register().

-Scott