On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
Uri Shkolnik <urishk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> The SDIO patches are part of (at least) dozen patches needed to upgrade the Siano's offering for Linux kernel.
>
> The order is -
> 1) SDIO SMS interface driver and SDIO stack patch (add)
> 2) SPI interface driver (add)
> 3) USB interface driver (modify)
> 4) IR port (add)
> 5) USB v3 (modify)
> 6-15(?) ) "Core" and "Cards" modifications
>
I'm not sure where the separation comes in here. So far the driver has
had a common entrypoint that calls all the different interface specific
startup routines.
>
> The order of the patches places the SDIO among the first to be submitted for review (interface drivers must be patched before the "core", in order to make the various commits pass bisect tests).
>
I take it you're referring to your internal repo? Mainline only
contains the USB interface so splitting that up into a core and
interface driver shouldn't cause any bisect problems.
> I suggest that we'll continue the submission, and I'll cc you on ALL submissions. You will be able to review, and either ask for modification and/or suggest your on supplementary patches at any stage.
>
I'd prefer to not build a huge monolith just to later take it apart,
but I can live with it.
Rgds
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