> -----Original Message----- > From: Tomi Valkeinen [mailto:tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:20 PM > To: Guruswamy, Senthilvadivu > Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; paul@xxxxxxxxx; Hilman, Kevin > Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/20] Move dss platform driver to dss.c > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:57 +0200, ext Guruswamy Senthilvadivu wrote: > > From: Senthilvadivu Guruswamy <svadivu@xxxxxx> > > > > dsshw_probe and remove functions are moved to dss.c > > To maintain the order of init, through the dsshw_probe, > omap_dss_init2 > > is made as device_init_call_sync. > > > > Signed-off-by: Senthilvadivu Guruswamy <svadivu@xxxxxx> > > > Why is the omap_dsshw_driver moved to dss.c, but the > hw_driver for other > blocks stay in core.c? > Ideally the plan is to move all the IP blocks to its corresponding files. As I mentioned in the TODO list I will try to move dispc, venc, rfbi, dsi in the next versions. > And generally about dss.c: > > There are confusingly two things DSS may refer to: 1) the > whole display > subsystem, including DSI/RFBI etc 2) the small main block inside DSS, > meaning the few DSS_* registers. > > It would be good to have different names for those, but at the time > being they are both "DSS". In some patch I saw names like "dss_dispc". > Perhaps we could have "dss_dss" there too. Although it looks a bit > confusing too =). > > dss.c is meant to handle the DSS_* registers, so it's about case 2. > > And so it doesn't contain general DSS stuff, like clock > allocation etc., > those have been in core.c. > > I'm not sure if this comment is valid for this patch, but at least > "[PATCH 07/20] Move clock functions from core driver to dss driver" > sounds like dss.c is used like case 1. > Once opt clocks are available for each of the DSS IP blocks like venc, Dsi also, then I should be able to move the clocks to the respective files Leaving only dss related clocks in dss.c. So the aim is to maintain dss.c restricted to few DSS_* registers. > Tomi > > > ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{�������ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
