From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rubini@gnudd.com (Alessandro Rubini) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:58:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci In-Reply-To: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20120526075855.GA1702@mail.gnudd.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > 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