Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751903Ab2EZH7Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2012 03:59:25 -0400 Received: from mail2.gnudd.com ([213.203.150.91]:52816 "EHLO mail.gnudd.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750732Ab2EZH7Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2012 03:59:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:58:55 +0200 From: Alessandro Rubini To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com, alan@linux.intel.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci Message-ID: <20120526075855.GA1702@mail.gnudd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: GnuDD, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems, Courses In-Reply-To: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 18 > Aside from the dma mask, this looks almost entirely generic. Would it > be possible to make this a generic pci-amba driver that lives under > drivers/amba/ and does not care about the type of device behind it? Yes, it's possible. Actually, this was my longer-time plan: propose a factorization when more of those were ready. So I'll remove the special name in the device and offer an implementation as generic as possible. BTW, are the prerequisite patches of with you? thanks /alessandro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/