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From: rubini@gnudd.com (Alessandro Rubini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:58:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120526075855.GA1702@mail.gnudd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de>

> 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?

thanks
/alessandro

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-26  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ 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 15:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] sizes.h: move from asm-generic to <linux/sizes.h> Alessandro Rubini
2012-05-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] amba: use the new linux/sizes.h Alessandro Rubini
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 ` [PATCH 4/6] pl011: " 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
2012-05-26  7:39   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-26  7:58   ` Alessandro Rubini [this message]
2012-05-26  8:29     ` Arnd Bergmann
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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