Hello Josh, If you are still intending to review our ppc440spe ADMA driver (thanks in advance if so), then please use the driver from my latest post as the reference:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-December/065983.html since this has some updates relating to the November version. On Thursday, November 13, 2008 you wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:50:43 +0300 > Ilya Yanok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > OK. >> > 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. > And that's fine. I just wanted to see where you were headed with this > one for now. I'll try to do a review in the next few days. Thanks for > posting. > josh > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Regards, Yuri -- Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
