Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:56:18 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> > 
> >      - for the others it will easy the SoC integration avoiding 
> > duplicated work and doing things from scratch.  
> 
> What would be duplicated? You want to support a new SoC, just add a new
> entry in the of_match_table and you're done. When you need to add
> SoC/integration specific stuff, create a struct and attach a different
> instance per-compatible so that each SoC can have its own configuration
> (or even init sequence if needed). That's how we do for pretty much all
> IPs out there, why should designware ones be different?

To be more specific, I'd like a real example that shows why the
separation is needed.