linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update pcengines-apuv2 platform device

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Date:   Thu, 4 Jul 2019 17:26:45 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Florian Eckert <fe@....tdt.de>
Cc:     Eckert.Florian@...glemail.com,
        "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update pcengines-apuv2 platform device

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 5:00 PM Florian Eckert <fe@....tdt.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Andy,
>
> thanks for feedback
>
> >> This patchset adds the following changes to this pcengines-apuv2
> >> platform device.
> >>
> >
> > Before doing anything to this driver, what is the plan for previously
> > upstreamed:
> >
> > drivers/leds/leds-apu.c
>
> I think we can remove the related APU2/APU3 code stuff from this driver.
> The recently added pcengines-apuv2 driver does *not* support the APU1.
> So I think we need the related APU1 stuff if we still want to support
> this board.

So, I would like to see some unification (since it's material for v5.4
cycle anyway, we have time).

> > arch/x86/platform/geode/alix.c
>
> I think this is not related because this is a different platform driver.
> Maybe we should move them to drivers/platform/x86?

You mentioned somewhere ALIx, can you elaborate if these are platforms
of the same family (PC engines)?

Looking into the code, I think we may unify all three under umbrella
of one driver if the above is true.


--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko