linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci

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Message-Id: <201205260739.31653.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 26 May 2012 07:39:31 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@...com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, x86@...nel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci

On Friday 25 May 2012, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> 
> This is a simple PCI driver that registers an amba device
> in its probe function. It successfully drives the 4 serial
> ports of the sta2x11 I/O Hub.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
> Acked-by: Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@...com>

Aside from the dma mask, this looks almost entirely generic. Would it
be possible to make this a generic pci-amba driver that lives under
drivers/amba/ and does not care about the type of device behind it?

	Arnd
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