Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] add new platform driver for PCI RC

[Joao Pinto]

On 2/5/2016 3:43 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 05 February 2016 14:51:39 Joao Pinto wrote:
>>
>> It is a driver that is useful for PCIe RC prototyping and to be a reference
>> platform driver for DesignWare PCIe RC, I don't know if merging some of the
>> driver's code into pcie-designware is really necessary depends on the usefulness
>> of it. I would suggest that bigger step to be done in a 2nd stage since I will
>> be around to maintain what's necessary. Agree?
>>
>> I made a patch that is applicable to Bjorn's host/pcie-synopsys that tries to
>> match your suggestions and Bjorn's. Could you please comment check it?
> 
> I think it would be useful to do this as generic as possible, and you seem
> to be the right person to integrate it into the generic driver as you have
> access to the hardware documents. Normally the folks writing the drivers
> are just guessing based on what little information they get out of manuals
> or vendor-provided drivers, but I'm sure that not all of that makes sense.

Arnd, sure and I would love to be useful and improve the dw pci ecosystem, but
maybe now we should submit the driver as suggested in "[PATCH] synopsys pcie rc
generic platform driver update" and then make in a future intervention.

Bjorn, could you please comment? Should we go now with this driver version and
in the future we make the changes suggested by Arnd?

> 
> 	Arnd
> 

Joao