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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:48:16 -0400
From: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
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To: Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Introduce drivers/soc and add QCOM GSBI driver
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Hi Andy,

On 04/21/2014 01:30 AM, Andy Gross wrote:
> The first patch in this set adds the drivers/soc directory and all the necessary
> plumbing.  These changes were discussed at the kernel summit and also were
> introduced in an earlier patch set from Santosh Shilimkar.
> 
> Reference the following set of patches:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/28/567

In that thread, Olof wrote, "The code [going into drivers/soc] isn't the pure
drivers. Those we find homes for."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/2/123

> The remaining patches add the QCOM GSBI (General Serial Bus Interface) driver,
> device tree binding information for both the GSBI and child node interaction,
> and lastly a patch to fix the current MSM serial driver to work correctly with
> the GSBI changes.

It's not obvious to me what makes the GSBI driver "impure" and unfit for say
drivers/bus. Could you perhaps include a brief explanation?

Thanks,
Christopher

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