From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@traphandler.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/11] memory: add Atmel EBI (External Bus Interface) driver
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:18:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1724175.Jqk8gQW3pz@ws-stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2417519.MDE3mu6n7n@wuerfel>
On Monday 01 December 2014 17:17:30, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2014 11:50:06 Boris Brezillon wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a strong opinion regarding where this driver should
> > live (I even considered putting it in drivers/bus) :-).
> > But note that there are other "external memory interface" drivers
> > in drivers/memory too: TI AEMIF and Marvell DEVBUS ;-).
> >
> > Does anyone else think this driver should go in drivers/bus ?
> >
>
> I think drivers/memory is better.
I don't mind if it's drivers/bus or drivers/memory. But I'm wondering: When is a driver a bus driver when it is a memory driver? See imx-weim and atmel-ebi. Apparently both add support for devices attached on a bus which can be accessed through memory addresses :)
Best regards,
Alexander
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-01 10:27 [PATCH v3 00/11] memory: add Atmel EBI (External Bus Interface) driver Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mfd: syscon: Add atmel-matrix registers definition Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417429647-3419-2-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 15:57 ` Nicolas Ferre
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mfd: syscon: Add Atmel Matrix bus DT binding documentation Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417429647-3419-3-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 14:32 ` Nicolas Ferre
[not found] ` <547F1F11.5090803-AIFe0yeh4nAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 14:52 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mfd: syscon: Add atmel-smc registers definition Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] mfd: syscon: Add Atmel SMC binding doc Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] memory: add Atmel EBI (External Bus Interface) driver Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417429647-3419-6-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-01 10:40 ` Alexander Stein
2014-12-01 10:50 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 16:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-02 9:18 ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2014-12-02 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-01 16:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-01 18:29 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 19:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-01 20:28 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 21:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-09 20:53 ` Alexander Stein
2014-12-15 10:22 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-15 10:29 ` Alexander Stein
2014-12-15 10:43 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] memory: atmel-ebi: add DT bindings documentation Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417429647-3419-7-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 14:56 ` Nicolas Ferre
[not found] ` <547F24B6.8070504-AIFe0yeh4nAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 15:15 ` Nicolas Ferre
[not found] ` <547F2918.3070803-AIFe0yeh4nAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 15:34 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-03 15:38 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-03 19:28 ` Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] ARM: at91: select ATMEL_EBI when compiling a kernel for at91sam9 or sama5d3 Boris Brezillon
2014-12-03 16:21 ` Nicolas Ferre
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] ARM: at91/dt: add HSMC (Static Memory Controller) node in sama5d3 dtsi Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] ARM: at91/dt: add matrix " Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] ARM: at91/dt: add EBI (External Bus Interface) " Boris Brezillon
2014-12-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] ARM: at91/dt: add NOR definition in sama5d3xcm dtsi Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417429647-3419-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-02 8:47 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] memory: add Atmel EBI (External Bus Interface) driver Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <1417510037-1060-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-03 15:24 ` Nicolas Ferre
2014-12-03 11:14 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: syscon: Add atmel-matrix registers definition Boris Brezillon
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