linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Convert OMAP GPMC to driver

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:44:25 -0700
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Afzal Mohammed <afzal@...com>
Cc:	khilman@...com, linux@....linux.org.uk, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	sameo@...ux.intel.com, grinberg@...pulab.co.il,
	mike@...pulab.co.il, nm@...com, artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com,
	vimal.newwork@...il.com, dbaryshkov@...il.com,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Convert OMAP GPMC to driver

* Afzal Mohammed <afzal@...com> [120405 09:06]:
> Hi,
> 
> GPMC driver conversion series. NAND and smsc911x ethernet device has
> been adapted to use GPMC driver.
> 
> Patches has been generated over linux-omap/master, HEAD
> 33fc21e Linux-omap rebuilt: Updated to v3.4-rc1, merged in most of pending branches
> As OMAP3EVM does not boot linux-omap/master, merge commit,
> 58adb29 Merge branch 'io_chain_devel_3.4' of git://git.pwsan.com/linux-2.6 into prm
> has to be reverted to get OMAP3EVM boot.
> Last patch (with subject prefix TMP - 9/9) is for testing.
> 
> Once driver is acceptable, platform code for other peripherals
> connected via GPMC would be adapted to make use of GPMC driver. And
> then the board modifications. But before that HWMOD entry has to be
> populated for respective SoC(s ?).
 
No, we can't do it this way, it breaks things. We need to first
convert everything to use the new GPMC driver, then move it. 
 
> Now DESTINATION FOR THIS DRIVER has to be decided. Original plan was
> to consider GPMC as MFD. The peripheral(s) connected to GPMC being
> considered childs of MFD.

Let's not put it into MFD. This is a bus driver. But that
decision can wait as we cleary have quite a few things to convert
first under arch/arm/mach-omap2.
 
> Various options that could be seen so far on where this driver can go,
> 1. mfd
> 2. misc
> 3. drivers/platform/arm/ (create an new one?)
> 4. memory (create a new one ?)

It's a parallel bus driver, not memory not misc, not MFD.

Cheers,

Tony 
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