Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] MIPI HSI device support for OMAP platforms

[Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:59:59AM +0100, ext Sebastien Jan wrote:
> This is an RFC for a series of patch to add the support of MIPI HSI and SSI
> devices to OMAP platforms.
> The patch includes the HSI device driver and the device files for MIPI HSI and
> SSI.
> 
> The driver is made of 2 distinct modules:
>  - omap_hsi: is the Low-Level Driver (or hardware driver). It provides a
>    kernel functional interface, to be used by other kernel modules and
>    abstracts the HW.
>    This part of the patch is based on Nokia SSI driver, already submitted as
>    RFC by Carlos Chinea [1].
>  - hsi-char: is a char device driver proposing a user-space interface for
>    using the HSI and relies on omap_hsi.
>    This part of the patch is based on a development from Andras Domokos.
> The intent is to propose a single HSI driver that can support MIPI HSI 1.1 as
> well as previous implementations (SSI) for OMAP platforms (OMAP3 / OMAP4).
> 
> The driver core functionalities are there and ready for review. The following
> updates will come in the following weeks / months:
>  - Clocks and Power Management support for OMAP4 platform (HSI device file)
>  - HSI-char interface documentation
> 
> Validation: The driver is validated on 3430 SDP (with a HW loopback on the SSI
> device), and is being validated on 4430 Virtio platform (MIPI HSI device).
> 
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/301918/

pass all your drivers on checkpatch.pl --strict and to sparse as well.

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balbi