Re: [PATCH 1/3] usb serial: Add generic USB wwan support

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:28:13PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:23:48PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > mjg:
> > > > The option driver actually appears to perform some commands that
> > > > are option-specific - if the other devices don't work the same way
> > > > they probably /ought/ to be in a different driver, but it doesn't
> > > > make any real difference.
> > > 
> > Sure they work the same way. Minor differences, assuming that they
> > actually matter, can easily be handled with device-specific options. Why
> > duplicate the whole code?
> 
> Where am I duplicating any code? This patchset exists to make it 
> possible to share the majority of the code without needing to share 
> device-specific code or add awkward conditionals - for instance, putting 
> the qcserial setup code directly in option would be kind of messy, but 
> qcserial would clearly benefit from the rest of the option driver 
> functionality.

Exactly, I like these patches, and think they will help us a lot.  Nice
job.

I'll go queue them up later today.

thanks,

greg k-h
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