From: "Juha Yrjölä" <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com>
To: "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP: Add minimal OMAP2430 support
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:54:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448C208F.4020102@solidboot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA12F909C0431D458B9D18A176BEE4A506200337@dlee02.ent.ti.com>
Woodruff, Richard wrote:
> Along with my other biases I rationalized it this way... I like
> having a private driver incompatible method to access the PRCM. It forces
> drivers to use API access functions and not directly access its
> registers. The PRCM has more and more things to manage and having some
> xyz driver mess up its state behind my back will break everything.
Exactly. That's why I keep my read_reg/write_reg functions static.
Usually I put even the register definitions to the .c file, since other
drivers shouldn't have any business modifying them directly anyway.
Cheers,
Juha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-11 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-11 13:22 [PATCH] ARM: OMAP: Add minimal OMAP2430 support Woodruff, Richard
2006-06-11 13:54 ` Juha Yrjölä [this message]
2006-06-12 6:43 ` Komal Shah
2006-06-12 16:07 ` Tony Lindgren
2006-06-12 16:35 ` Komal Shah
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-11 13:09 Woodruff, Richard
2006-06-11 12:15 Woodruff, Richard
2006-06-11 12:50 ` Juha Yrjölä
2006-05-21 13:50 Woodruff, Richard
2006-05-18 12:30 Woodruff, Richard
2006-05-21 12:23 ` Komal Shah
2006-05-18 11:44 Komal Shah
2006-06-05 16:54 ` Tony Lindgren
2006-06-06 3:08 ` Komal Shah
2006-06-06 17:58 ` Tony Lindgren
2006-06-11 8:37 ` Komal Shah
2006-06-11 10:08 ` Juha Yrjölä
2006-05-17 10:50 Komal Shah
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