Re: [PATCH 0/3] 8250: Split Fintek PCIE to UART to independent file

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:24:36PM +0800, Peter Hung wrote:
> Hi Sudip,
> 
> Sudip Mukherjee 於 2016/1/20 下午 02:22 寫道:
> >On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:59:28AM +0800, Peter Hung wrote:
> 
> >But my personal opinion, if we move out the serial port related code
> >into a new driver (a new Kconfig symbol) userspace of many system will
> >break if this new symbol is not enabled by the distributions. But in the
> >way I have done the new symbol needs to be enabled only if the user
> >wants to use the GPIO capability. If that is not enabled GPIO cannot be
> >used but it will never break the serial port related code for them.
> >I think we should give a thought to that before splitting out the codes
> >from 8250_pci.
> 
> I agree with your opinion. I'm trying to implement GPIO with 2 ways,
> One is like yours, add platform_device with in 8250_pci.c and implement
> GPIOLIB platform driver with in 'driver/gpio", and the other is trying
> split out from 8250_pci.c to MFD.
> 
> In my personal opinion, the first method is less impact with compatible
> old system.

Looks like no one else is in support of our opinion. Fair enough, I will
split out the related code from 8250_pci and create the MFD driver this
weekend for my hardware.

regards
sudip
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