Re: [PATCH 0/3] 8250: Split Fintek PCIE to UART to independent file

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 03:44:16PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:24:36PM +0800, Peter Hung wrote:
> >> Hi Sudip,
> >>
> >> Sudip Mukherjee æ 2016/1/20 äå 02:22 åé:
> >> >On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:59:28AM +0800, Peter Hung wrote:
> >>
> >> >But my personal opinion, if we move out the serial port related code
> >> >into a new driver (a new Kconfig symbol) userspace of many system will
> >> >break if this new symbol is not enabled by the distributions. But in the
> >> >way I have done the new symbol needs to be enabled only if the user
> >> >wants to use the GPIO capability. If that is not enabled GPIO cannot be
> >> >used but it will never break the serial port related code for them.
> >> >I think we should give a thought to that before splitting out the codes
> >> >from 8250_pci.
> >>
> >> I agree with your opinion. I'm trying to implement GPIO with 2 ways,
> >> One is like yours, add platform_device with in 8250_pci.c and implement
> >> GPIOLIB platform driver with in 'driver/gpio", and the other is trying
> >> split out from 8250_pci.c to MFD.
> >>
> >> In my personal opinion, the first method is less impact with compatible
> >> old system.
> >
> > Looks like no one else is in support of our opinion. Fair enough, I will
> > split out the related code from 8250_pci and create the MFD driver this
> > weekend for my hardware.
> 
> Yeah, MFD looks preferable.
> 
> Btw, don't forget to backlist your devices in 8250_pci since they
> quite possible provide a PCI class which is used by 8250_pci driver
> for default enumeration.

One doubt. If I have understood correctly the main reason you have asked
me to split the code out of 8250_pci so that the size reduces. But
pci_xr17v35x_setup() is also used by another card which has
PCI_VENDOR_ID_COMMTECH. So even if I create a separate file for exar cards,
almost identical function will still remain in 8250_pci.

regards
sudip