From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com,
alan@linux.intel.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, x86@kernel.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 08:29:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205260829.19232.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120526075855.GA1702@mail.gnudd.com>
On Saturday 26 May 2012, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > Aside from the dma mask, this looks almost entirely generic. Would it
> > be possible to make this a generic pci-amba driver that lives under
> > drivers/amba/ and does not care about the type of device behind it?
>
> Yes, it's possible. Actually, this was my longer-time plan: propose a
> factorization when more of those were ready. So I'll remove the
> special name in the device and offer an implementation as generic
> as possible.
>
> BTW, are the prerequisite patches of with you?
>
Yes, they all look good to me, although patch 5 would have to change
if you do patch 6 the way we discussed here.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-26 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 15:47 [PATCH 0/6] Bridging PCI to amba Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:47 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] sizes.h: move from asm-generic to <linux/sizes.h> Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] amba: use the new linux/sizes.h Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-26 8:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-26 8:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: " Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] pl011: " Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM_AMBA, selected by STA2X11 Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-26 7:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-26 7:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-26 7:58 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-26 7:58 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-26 8:29 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-05-26 8:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-26 8:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-26 8:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-26 8:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-26 9:27 ` Alessandro Rubini
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