From: viresh.kumar@st.com (Viresh KUMAR)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: QUERY: How to handle SOC Configuration (Peripheral Multiplexing) in linux
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:04:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9DD4E7.3060308@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EAF47CD23C76F840A9E7FCE10091EFAB02C47A6CDC@dbde02.ent.ti.com>
On 3/15/2010 10:58 AM, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>> > But the standard drivers which are already in mainline may not support these platform
>> > data.
>> >
> Driver won't change major way. I was saying passing additional information via
> platform data to drivers. Even with Kconfig stuff, you need to touch drivers to take care of
> your exceptions.
>
> Am I missing something?
We need only a platform specific function (spear300_configure), that will take care of this.
We don't need to change anything in driver for this. I feel Driver is not supposed to know
what platform specific configuration is required to enable the device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 4:31 QUERY: How to handle SOC Configuration (Peripheral Multiplexing) in linux Viresh KUMAR
2010-03-15 4:47 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 5:14 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-15 5:41 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 6:32 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-03-15 6:46 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 12:55 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-03-15 13:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-15 13:22 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-03-16 2:01 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 12:52 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-03-15 16:02 ` Armando VISCONTI
2010-03-15 16:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-15 16:53 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-03-15 17:09 ` Mark Brown
2010-03-15 18:57 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-03-15 18:58 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-03-15 16:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-15 4:57 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-03-15 5:15 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-15 5:28 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-03-15 6:34 ` Viresh KUMAR [this message]
2010-03-15 6:20 ` Ben Dooks
2010-03-15 6:28 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-03-15 8:42 ` Armando VISCONTI
2010-03-15 9:09 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-15 9:37 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 10:22 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-15 10:34 ` jassi brar
2010-03-15 10:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-15 10:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-15 10:10 ` Armando VISCONTI
2010-03-15 10:27 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-15 7:06 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-03-17 16:30 ` Ben Dooks
2010-03-19 4:45 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-03-15 17:55 ` Linus Walleij
2010-03-16 13:39 ` Shiraz HASHIM
2010-03-16 21:55 ` Linus Walleij
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