From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: driver for PrimeCell PL061 GPIO controller
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:15:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601101541.GA14072@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601100234.GA8025@jasper.tkos.co.il>
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:02:35PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:31:06AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:00:36PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > This is a driver for the ARM PrimeCell PL061 GPIO AMBA peripheral. The driver
> > > is implemented using the gpiolib framework.
> >
> > Why is this a platform driver rather than an AMBA primecell driver?
>
> I'm willing to make this driver an AMBA driver. I'd just like to know what
> is the advantage of the AMBA bus (linux/amba/bus.h) over the platform "bus",
> from software point of view?
The amba bus is the established bus for amba primecells. I repeat:
please make it an amba bus driver.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 9:00 Baruch Siach
2009-06-01 9:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-06-01 10:02 ` Baruch Siach
2009-06-01 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
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