RE: [PATCH v5 00/14] GPMC driver conversion

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Hi Tony,

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 18:03:05, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> Cool, yeah looks like the old interface almost works. I had to undo the
> new additions for tusb6010 DMA to work as below. Then Jon has some good
> comments. I also made few comments to the GPMC using driver changes.

Thanks and sorry for the trouble it caused you

I will post next version based on the comments

> In general, please keep in mind that eventually we want this to be
> a regular device driver that also works as a loadable module.

Yes, that is my intention, at the end of driver conversion, it should
be able to work as a module.

> 
> And we need the device tree bindings for GPMC so we can start dropping
> board-*.c files as the GPMC seems to be last remaining blocker for
> making rarely used legacy boards DT only. So it might be worth
> playing with that so we don't again have to redo some parts.

We would prefer to do it one step at a time, have driver conversion changes
first in, and then work on DT migration. Once these changes are in we have a
base to work on for further DT migration.

Please let me know your opinion

Regards
Afzal
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