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From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] amba: add name based matching
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTineh_XDPgkf04R61PHkiGBE2=Mc0cw6fvt3AuNL@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315144925.GG3921@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

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

The second option I would try is to add a field to the platform data
for pl022 and mmci/pl180 such as "u8 silicon_revision" and encode
that with some 0x01, 0x02, 0x03... for the silicon revisions that
matter to behaviour.

Would you prefer this approach?

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 14:55 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
2011-03-15 14:55     ` Linus Walleij [this message]
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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