Re: RFC: cpm2_devices.c

[Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>]

Dan,

If I understand you correctly this is not any different than how we 
handle the TSEC (gianfar) on 85xx.  The platform device structure just 
gives us physical address (start & end) and IRQs and we use a structure 
in the driver that maps to the start address.

- kumar

> Having just converted an different SoC part from using offsets to data
> structures, I have to say that tables/defines of offsets are more of a
> mess
> than a data structure.  We don't have to define the whole of the IMMAP,
> but
> using the data structures for the individual device spaces is quite
> effective.
> The advantage of using the data structure is it also conveys the data
> type
> size, adding a level error checking.  I also dislike io accessor
> functions/macros,
> especially on these processor specific devices.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> 	-- Dan