Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] ARM: Add support for the display controllers in VT8500 and WM8505

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 05:16:41 EST


On Sunday 07 November 2010, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> drivers/video/Kconfig | 26 +++
> drivers/video/Makefile | 3 +
> drivers/video/vt8500lcdfb.c | 452 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/video/vt8500lcdfb.h | 34 +++
> drivers/video/wm8505fb.c | 438 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/video/wm8505fb_regs.h | 76 +++++++
> drivers/video/wmt_ge_rops.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/video/wmt_ge_rops.h | 5 +

>From a very brief look, the two drivers look rather similar. What is the
reason to have separate drivers instead of just one?

Could you perhaps take the common parts and move them into a third module
that exports symbols to be used by the two drivers?

Arnd

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