Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: sunxi: Add an ahci-platform compatible AHCI driver for the Allwinner SUNXi series of SoCs

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

(cc'ing Richard and Shawn, hi!)

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:16:49PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> On 04-12-13 14:14, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:56:23PM +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
> >>I took the imx driver as example, as I wasn't sure on where to
> >>start. But I don't think it's possible yet without improving
> >>ahci_platform as I suggested in the cover letter. So if
> >>ahci_platform needs to be improved, I guess a separate patch series
> >>would be more appropriate?
> >>
> >>So would it be acceptable to have this as the 2nd (and last?)
> >>ahci_platform driver and go from there? Or do you want to block new
> >>ahci_XXX drivers until ahci_platform has been improved?
> >
> >I don't want to block new drivers unconditionally but at least I want
> >to know which direction we're headed in the longer term.  Right now it
> >feels like we could be at the beginning of an uncoordinated explosion
> >of these drivers which will take a hell lot mpore effort to clean up
> >after the fact.  I could be wrong and these could actually be
> >different enough to justify separate drivers and there isn't gonna be
> >an avalanche of these but again I at least want to know the general
> >direction things are headed before making any decisions.
> I'd be happy to pour it in any form that's needed. I even do the
> modification/rewrite of ahci_platform if I get enough help as it
> might be a little over my head initially ;)
> 
> That said, I don't think it's much different at all and I do think
> it could be much simpler. In my mind, the sunxi_ahci driver wouldn't
> need to be much bigger then a few lines that are specific to the SoC
> (hardware init) and registerd to the ahci_platform framework via
> platform_ahci_register() instead of platform_device_register().
> 
> But again, point me (for dummies ;) in the right direction and I'll
> work on it with some help.

Richard and Shawn recently worked on ahci_imx.  Can you guys please
talk with each other and figure out what can be done to share as much
as possible among these new platform-specific drivers?  I'd really
like to see the common things factored out as much as possible with
only the actual hardware differences described for each device.

Thanks a lot!

-- 
tejun