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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] amba: add name based matching
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:49:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315144925.GG3921@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300200116-12185-2-git-send-email-philippe.langlais@stericsson.com>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Philippe Langlais wrote:
> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>
> 
> Some peripherals on the DBx500 family of SoCs have changes in their
> functionality and registers between different variants in the family but
> retain the same AMBA peripheral ID, making it impossible to distinguish
> between them in AMBA drivers with the current AMBA id_table.
> 
> To support this, add a name parameter to the amba_device and the amba_id
> and allow name based matching as a second level filter after the
> periphid match.

I really hate the idea of matching AMBA stuff by name.  Isn't there any
other solution to this?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15 14:41 [PATCH 0/4] Fix ST-Ericsson Ux500 specific PL022 & PL180 amba devices Philippe Langlais
2011-03-15 14:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] amba: add name based matching Philippe Langlais
2011-03-15 14:49   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-03-15 14:55     ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-17  8:47     ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-17  8:48       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-17  8:58         ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-15 14:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] amba-pl022: Add loopback support for the SPI on 5500 Philippe Langlais
2011-03-15 14:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] mmci/pl180: Support for db8500v2. ST-Ericsson modified ARM PrimeCell PL180 block has not got an updated corresponding amba-id, althought the IP block has changed in db8500v2. The change was done to the datactrl register Philippe Langlais
2011-03-15 14:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] ux500: pass name for db5500-spi & db8500v2-sdi devices Philippe Langlais

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