Re: [PATCHv3 1/4] ARM: tegra: Add AHB driver

[Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:59:03 +0200
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:51:28PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 04/25/2012 05:07 AM, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> > > The AHB Bus conforms to the AMBA Specification (Rev 2.0) Advanced
> > > High-performance Bus (AHB) architecture.
> > > 
> > > The AHB Arbiter controls AHB bus master arbitration. This effectively
> > > forms a second level of arbitration for access to the memory
> > > controller through the AHB Slave Memory device. The AHB pre-fetch
> > > logic can be configured to enhance performance for devices doing
> > > sequential access. Each AHB master is assigned to either the high or
> > > low priority bin. Both Tegra20/30 have this AHB bus.
> > > 
> > > Some of configuration param could be passed from DT too.
> > 
> > I think this code looks reasonable. I'd like to see an ack from Russell,
> > Arnd, and Olof on the final location of the files though.
> 
> Well, the big question which needs answering is whether this AHB software
> interface is something specific to Tegra or whether it really is something
> generic.  There's been some hints in the previous thread that it's
> specific to Tegra, so it may not after all make sense for it to be a
> generic driver.
> 
> However, we _have_ decided "no more drivers under arch/arm".  So I really
> don't want to see "struct xxx_driver" appearing in any code under that
> subdirectory or one of its decendents.  I don't have much more to say
> about location than that.

What about having this driver under "drivers/amba"?

If other similiar drivers are coming up, it's easy to find rather than
having this arch/arm/mach-*. There may be some possibility of
generalization later, then. Also it meets the requirement of no
"struct xxxx_driver" under arch/arm. Arnd?