Re: Fwd: [PATCH 29/46] Input: touchscreen: use wrapper for pxa2xx ac97 registers

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:39:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:48 PM Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:41:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > To avoid a dependency on the pxa platform header files with
> > > hardcoded registers, change the driver to call a wrapper
> > > in the pxa2xx-ac97-lib that encapsulates all the other
> > > ac97 stuff.
> >
> > Not supper happy about adding module dependencies. Can we include
> > mach/regs-ac97.h from include/sound/pxa2xx-lib.h and use static inlines?
> > Someone needs to include mach/regs-ac97.h in the end...
> >
> > Or there is something later in the series that needs it?
> 
> One of the goals of the series is to completely remove all mach/*.h headers
> and place them somewhere else, ideally inaccessible to device drivers.
> 
> In case of mach/regs-ac97.h, the later patch "ASoC: pxa: ac97: use normal
> MMIO accessors" passes the physical register base address as a platform
> device resource that gets ioremapped in the ac97 driver, rather than
> hardcoding the virtual address in a global header.
> 
> I agree that the exported function is still ugly, but I hope it's enough of
> an improvement over the previous state that we can do it anyway.
> 
> If you have any better ideas though, I can give that a try, too.
> One possibility would be a higher-level interface exported on top
> of 'struct snd_ac97', but I could not figure out how to do this.

No, I do mot really have better ideas given your stated goals and I
guess there is not really much benefit on spending too much effort
polishing essentially one driver.

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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