From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jason@lakedaemon.net (Jason Cooper) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:26:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: Kirkwood: Add support for many Synology NAS devices In-Reply-To: <20140206170333.GK29860@lunn.ch> References: <1391634309-3123-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <20140206153939.GD8533@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20140206160126.GH29860@lunn.ch> <107057891.kz6j7UkZNk@wuerfel> <20140206170333.GK29860@lunn.ch> Message-ID: <20140206172655.GG8533@titan.lakedaemon.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:03:33PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:28PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 06 February 2014 17:01:26 Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > , but this is, imho, > > > > over-fragmenting. I'm sure there's a reason you chose this path, but > > > > you haven't explained why in your commit log. So I'm left guessing... > > > > > > Synology seem to build there devices like lego. They have two > > > different RTC blocks. They have three different fan alarm blocks, four > > > different led blocks, etc. And to build a product, the just select a > > > group of blocks and put them together. > > > > I guess the Armada-370 and newer based ds213j and dsx14 will also be > > able to reuse some of the blocks, right? > > Hi Arnd > > I've not looked at any sources for those yet. I guess the RTC .dtsi > files should be reusable. The ethernet driver on 370 is different so > no re-use there. Maybe the fan controller, but the rest will depend on > what GPIO lines they have used, if they are compatible. perhaps all of the pinctrl nodes should be moved into synology-6281, synology-6282, and synology-370 ? thx, Jason.