Dear Tejun Heo, On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:23:12 -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > But again, point me (for dummies ;) in the right direction and I'll > > work on it with some help. > > Richard and Shawn recently worked on ahci_imx. Can you guys please > talk with each other and figure out what can be done to share as much > as possible among these new platform-specific drivers? I'd really > like to see the common things factored out as much as possible with > only the actual hardware differences described for each device. Also, please Cc me on such discussions. I have a pending AHCI platform driver for another ARM SoC family. It is very similar to ahci_platform, but needs to do a few more things that are SoC specific (map an additional register area, and do some SoC-specific stuff with them). For the moment, we're left with two approaches: * Do what Oliver did, where the ahci_<foo> driver will do its own SoC-specific stuff, and then will register an additional platform_device to trigger the ->probe() of the generic ahci_platform driver. I must say I don't really like this solution, since it involves having two platform_device registered for the same piece of hardware (one platform_device to trigger the ->probe of ahci_<foo>, and another one to trigger the ->probe of ahci_platform). * Duplicate in ahci_<foo> the (relatively small) amount of code that is present in ahci_platform. >From my point of view, ahci_platform should be turned into a small "library", that provides an API for ahci_<foo> drivers to 1/ do their own custom stuff and 2/ do the common ahci_platform stuff. This way we avoid the registration of two platform_device for the same piece of hardware, and we avoid the duplication of code. Want me to propose a RFC for this idea? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
