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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/11] DM: add block controller core
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:39:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201209211739.21328.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1828466.nGcr9mmuJ1@bloomfield>

Dear Pavel Herrmann,

[...]

> > Can't the old driver just have a compat section in them? Like I did with
> > serial stuff:
> > 
> > 1) rename the internal functions to ${driver}_${function_name} from pure
> > ${function_name} and introduce section which behaves as a wrapper
> > (implement ${function_name} calling ${driver}_${function_name} ).
> > 2) Add your DM goo, implement #ifdef around it so either the compat
> > section or DM section is enabled.
> 
> I actually did something of this sort, see [4/11], with less touching.
> 
> the problem is that while SATA drivers are easy to convert, IDE ones are
> not. I would actually propose to do a ide_legacy driver (mostly out of the
> code currently in common/cmd_ide.c), and keep it as the only option until
> IDE dies completely.

IDE will be around for a LONG time.

You introduce that CONFIG_SYS_SATA_LEGACY for no reason, if you did it as said 
above, simple CONFIG_DM would suffice as the drivers would be intacts with DM 
disabled. Note the compiler will opt-out these proxy calls.

Besides, with this approach of yours, you need to enable SATA_LEGACY for every 
single board now, introducing a lot of churn into the patches and if it's not 
defined, every board using SATA is broken, right?

> > How does that work? It's much cleaner.
> > 
> > > Pavel Herrmann
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Marek Vasut

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20 19:37 [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] Add DM blockdev subsystem Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/11] DM: add block device core Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:58   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21  7:11     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 12:39       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 13:27         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 13:53           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 14:57             ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 15:34               ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 15:48                 ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 15:55                   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 17:19                     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 18:00                       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 18:53                         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 19:17                           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 19:29                             ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 21:11                               ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 23:43                                 ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-22  0:09                                   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-22  9:39                                     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-22 13:33                                       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-22 13:59                                         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-24 12:23                                           ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 20:49   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot-DM] " Vikram Narayanan
2012-09-21  7:09     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 12:39       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/11] DM: add support for scanning DOS partitions to blockdev core Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 20:03   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21  7:22     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 12:47       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 13:18         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 13:54           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/11] DM: add block controller core Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 20:05   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21  7:21     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 12:51       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 13:14         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 13:56           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 15:04             ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 13:33         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 13:58           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 15:09             ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 15:39               ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-09-21 15:46                 ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 16:08                   ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 17:22                     ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 18:01                       ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-21 19:15                         ` Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-21 19:22                           ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/11] DM: add sata_legacy driver for blockctrl Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/11] DM: add ata and partition blockdev drivers Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/11] DM: add cmd_block command Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/11] DM: use new blockdev API in FAT Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/11] DM: use new blockdev API in ext2 Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/11] DM: use new blockdev API in reiserfs Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/11] DM: use new blockdev API in ZFS Pavel Herrmann
2012-09-20 19:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/11] DM: switch sandbox to DM blockdev Pavel Herrmann

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