Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] ARM64 LPC: Indirect ISA port IO introduced

Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08T22:35:27Z

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:49:49 PM CET Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:33:44PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > On 08/11/2016 16:12, Will Deacon wrote:
> > >On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:47:07AM +0800, zhichang.yuan wrote:

> > >Is there no way to make this slightly more generic, so that it can be
> > >re-used elsewhere? For example, if struct extio_ops was common, then
> > >you could have the singleton (which maybe should be an interval tree?),
> > >type definition, setter function and the BUILD_EXTIO invocations
> > >somewhere generic, rather than squirelled away in the arch backend.
> > >
> > The concern would be that some architecture which uses generic higher-level
> > ISA accessor ops, but have IO space, could be affected.
>
> You're already adding a Kconfig symbol for this stuff, so you can keep
> that if you don't want it on other architectures. I'm just arguing that
> plumbing drivers directly into arch code via arm64_set_extops is not
> something I'm particularly fond of, especially when it looks like it
> could be avoided with a small amount of effort.

Agreed, I initially suggested putting this into arch/arm64/, but there isn't
really a reason why it couldn't just live in lib/ with the header file
bits moved to include/asm-generic/io.h which we already use.

Arnd