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

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat May 26 2012 - 04:29:38 EST


On Saturday 26 May 2012, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes, it's possible. Actually, this was my longer-time plan: propose a
> factorization when more of those were ready. So I'll remove the
> special name in the device and offer an implementation as generic
> as possible.
>
> BTW, are the prerequisite patches of with you?
>

Yes, they all look good to me, although patch 5 would have to change
if you do patch 6 the way we discussed here.

Arnd
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