On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:29:46 AM CET John Garry wrote: > On 08/11/2016 22:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:49:49 PM CET Will Deacon wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:33:44PM +0000, John Garry wrote: > >>> On 08/11/2016 16:12, Will Deacon wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:47:07AM +0800, zhichang.yuan wrote: > > > >>>> Is there no way to make this slightly more generic, so that it can be > >>>> re-used elsewhere? For example, if struct extio_ops was common, then > >>>> you could have the singleton (which maybe should be an interval tree?), > >>>> type definition, setter function and the BUILD_EXTIO invocations > >>>> somewhere generic, rather than squirelled away in the arch backend. > >>>> > >>> The concern would be that some architecture which uses generic higher-level > >>> ISA accessor ops, but have IO space, could be affected. > >> > >> You're already adding a Kconfig symbol for this stuff, so you can keep > >> that if you don't want it on other architectures. I'm just arguing that > >> plumbing drivers directly into arch code via arm64_set_extops is not > >> something I'm particularly fond of, especially when it looks like it > >> could be avoided with a small amount of effort. > > > > Agreed, I initially suggested putting this into arch/arm64/, but there isn't > > really a reason why it couldn't just live in lib/ with the header file > > bits moved to include/asm-generic/io.h which we already use. > > > > Right, Zhichang will check the logistics of this. The generic io.h is > quite clean, so as long as you don't mind new build switches of this > nature being added, it should be ok; and we'll plan on moving extio.h > into include/asm-generic as well. I think all we need is an #ifdef CONFIG_something around the existing defintion, with the alternative being "extern" declarations, after that all the interesting logic can sit in a file in lib/. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
