Le lundi 01 avril 2013 à 16:32 +0100, Mark Brown a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:06:43PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > My point was, the upstream gpio-ucb1400 driver in its current form is > > unusable (on top of being ugly.) I have no doubt that someone used that > > driver successfully in some external kernel tree, but the code that was > > merged upstream is incomplete and no good. > > What the driver is doing is, unfortunately, the best practice for an > AC'97 connected device like this - we've got an uncomfortable mix of > an enumerable bus and platform data combined with a subsystem which has > never had enough love to work in a nice way with the kernel. The idea > is that any boards which have the device will call the _set_data() > function in their board-specific code.
OK but where are these users? I can't see any in the upstream kernel. > Sadly we're a little short on volunteers to clean up the AC'97 > subsystem so this situation shows little sign of improving. Well Marek proposed a cleanup which looked good [1], several times apparently, but it was never applied. [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-October/028656.html -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
