Re: [PATCH v3 13/13] scsi: ufs: Add exynos ufs platform data

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Oct 05 2015 - 10:47:30 EST


On Monday 05 October 2015 09:11:33 Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday 05 October 2015 13:44:29 Alim Akhtar wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/01/2015 04:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 01 October 2015 18:46:34 kbuild test robot wrote:
> >> > Ah, this seems to be a case of layering violation. It would be best to
> >> > restructure the code so that the exynos driver registers a platform_driver
> >> > by itself for the respective DT compatible string, and then calls
> >> > into the common code from its probe function, rather than having the
> >> > generic driver know about the specific backends.
> >> >
> >> > That approach will also make the generic driver more scalable as we
> >> > add further chip-specific variations, and matches what we do in other
> >> > drivers.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Looks like some discussions on ufs variant driver probe method happened
> >> here [1] few months back.
> >> [1]-> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/3/180
> >
> > Hmm, too bad we didn't catch it then, it's much more work to fix now.
>
> What you suggested is what is being implemented[1]. It is not merged
> yet. The core is a library and the platform specific parts create the
> driver.
>
> Rob
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/2/364

Ah, good. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my side.

Arnd
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