Hello Mailing List,
what is your opinion about creating a driver template stub, which is
regarded as gold standard, which driver implementers can copy then?
This template should be properly maintained.
Fixes should then be made first to that template and then be ported to
the actual driver implementations.
I have seen quite some isolated locking fixes and also others on the
mailing list which does not guarantee a homogenous quality standard.
As an example the altera-msgdma driver had been once derived from the
zynqmp-dma driver but quite some fixes, improvements and extensions only
made it back into zynqmp-dma and not the altera-msgdma driver (including
a spinlock fix).
Apart we wouldn't maybe need to change 59 files in the future, twice.
Cheers
Eric
