Re: [PATCH 0/5] consolidate sdhci pltfm & OF drivers and get themself registered

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 09:20:47 EST


Hi Shawn,

> > The approach seems sensible, so have a look at my (mostly minor)
> > comments inside the patches. However, there is one bigger piece missing.
> > You converted all the drivers which had a seperate source-file and
> > hooked into sdhci-pltfm.c. However, those are only those users which
> > need additional code to work around the quirks. There are also users
> > which can take the plain pltfm-driver with a properly set
> > platform_data (check the thread "[PATCH] mmc: add SDHCI driver for STM
> > platforms (V2)" for an example). Those have to be converted, too.
>
> Even those drivers need pltfm-<something>.c to accommodate the
> platform_data, right? I think sdhci-dove.c (sitting on mainline) is
> also such an example. So if I'm not mistaken, I did take care of the
> drivers which can take the current plain pltfm-sdhci driver.

I stand corrected. I assumed the STM platforms did hit mainline
meanwhile, but they did not. There really doesn't seem to be one user of
sdhci-pltfm without using workarounds. (will make sdhc v3 make it better
or worse? I get fears...) So, everything OK with your series.

> > Now the discussion could be if every of those users gets its own
> > pltfm-<something>.c or if we create something similat to
> > sdhci-pltfm-generic, which can also be setup with platform_data like the
> > old driver (/me likes the latter a bit more. If we don't change the name
> > of the driver (not talking about the sourcefile) and keep it
> > "sdhci-pltfm", then you wouldn't need to change all those users if you
> > ensured it behaves the same.
> >
> Since there are already pltfm-<something>.c to hold platform_data for
> those users anyway, it's not an argument here.

sdhci-dove needs to overload readw/readl. If there is a user not
needings such, i.e. only plain quirks (or even nothing, what a dream!),
then a generic driver might be worthwhile. Can wait until we see such a
user, though.

Regards,

Wolfram

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