Re: [PATCH v2 tty-next 3/3] 8250: microchip: pci1xxxx: Add power management functions to quad-uart driver.

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 12:23 PM <Tharunkumar.Pasumarthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, October 3, 2022 2:57 PM

> > If you have similarities with 8250_pci, probably you need to split it to
> > 8250_pcilib.c and share. (See how 8250_dw /8250_lpss are done in that
> > sense.)
>
> All the functions used in 8250_pci1xxxx.c  that have similarity with 8250_pci use registers
> that are specific to our IP.  The only function that can be moved to common library is the
> setup_port. But, for that the first argument of setup_port must be changed to
> 'struct pci_dev *dev' (priv->dev).  Do you suggest doing this?

So, you can create a common serial8250_setup_port(struct pci_dev *dev,
...) and call it from the static setup_port() inside 8250_pci.c. This
way you won't introduce too many churn.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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