Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:16:04PM +0300, Ilya Yanok wrote: > >> Adds the platform device definitions and the architecture specific support >> routines for the ppc440spe adma driver. >> >> Any board equipped with PPC440SP(e) controller may utilize this driver. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > Before I really dig into reviewing this driver, I'm going to ask you as simple > question. This looks like a 1/2 completed port of an arch/ppc driver that > uses > the device tree (incorrectly) to get the interrupt resources and that's about > it. > Otherwise, it's just a straight up platform device driver. Is that correct? >
Yep, that's correct. > If that is the case, I think the driver needs more work before it can be > merged. > It should get the DCR and MMIO resources from the device tree as well. It > should > be binding on compatible properties and not based on device tree paths. And > it > should probably be an of_platform device driver. > Surely, you're right. I agree with you in that this driver isn't ready for merging. But it works so we'd like to publish it so interested people could use it and test it. Regards, Ilya. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
