From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
mark.rutland@arm.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
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catalin.marinas@arm.com, zhichang.yuan02@gmail.com,
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Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
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"zhichang.yuan" <yuanzhichang@hisilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] ARM64 LPC: Indirect ISA port IO introduced
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:33:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2939462.W2yy62pjEE@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dee9821-5145-2113-e391-6317e4533c06@huawei.com>
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:29:46 AM CET John Garry wrote:
> On 08/11/2016 22:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:49:49 PM CET Will Deacon wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:33:44PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> >>> On 08/11/2016 16:12, Will Deacon wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:47:07AM +0800, zhichang.yuan wrote:
> >
> >>>> Is there no way to make this slightly more generic, so that it can be
> >>>> re-used elsewhere? For example, if struct extio_ops was common, then
> >>>> you could have the singleton (which maybe should be an interval tree?),
> >>>> type definition, setter function and the BUILD_EXTIO invocations
> >>>> somewhere generic, rather than squirelled away in the arch backend.
> >>>>
> >>> The concern would be that some architecture which uses generic higher-level
> >>> ISA accessor ops, but have IO space, could be affected.
> >>
> >> You're already adding a Kconfig symbol for this stuff, so you can keep
> >> that if you don't want it on other architectures. I'm just arguing that
> >> plumbing drivers directly into arch code via arm64_set_extops is not
> >> something I'm particularly fond of, especially when it looks like it
> >> could be avoided with a small amount of effort.
> >
> > Agreed, I initially suggested putting this into arch/arm64/, but there isn't
> > really a reason why it couldn't just live in lib/ with the header file
> > bits moved to include/asm-generic/io.h which we already use.
> >
>
> Right, Zhichang will check the logistics of this. The generic io.h is
> quite clean, so as long as you don't mind new build switches of this
> nature being added, it should be ok; and we'll plan on moving extio.h
> into include/asm-generic as well.
I think all we need is an #ifdef CONFIG_something around the existing
defintion, with the alternative being "extern" declarations, after that
all the interesting logic can sit in a file in lib/.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-09 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-08 3:47 [PATCH V5 0/3] ARM64 LPC: legacy ISA I/O support zhichang.yuan
2016-11-08 3:47 ` [PATCH V5 1/3] ARM64 LPC: Indirect ISA port IO introduced zhichang.yuan
2016-11-08 12:03 ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-08 16:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-11-10 8:33 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-10 11:22 ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-10 19:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-11-11 10:07 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-18 9:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-18 11:12 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-18 11:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-21 12:58 ` John Garry
2016-11-08 16:12 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-08 16:33 ` John Garry
2016-11-08 16:49 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-08 17:05 ` John Garry
2016-11-08 22:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-09 11:29 ` John Garry
2016-11-09 21:33 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-12-22 8:15 ` Ming Lei
2016-12-23 1:43 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-12-23 7:24 ` Ming Lei
2017-01-06 11:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08 3:47 ` [PATCH V5 2/3] ARM64 LPC: Add missing range exception for special ISA zhichang.yuan
2016-11-08 5:17 ` kbuild test robot
2016-11-08 5:27 ` kbuild test robot
2016-11-08 11:49 ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-08 16:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08 17:10 ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-09 13:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-09 14:51 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-09 21:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-14 11:11 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-18 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-08 23:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-11-09 11:20 ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-10 7:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-11-09 11:39 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-09 16:16 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-09 16:50 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-10 6:24 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-10 16:06 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-11 10:37 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-08 3:47 ` [PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06 zhichang.yuan
2016-11-08 6:11 ` kbuild test robot
2016-11-08 16:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-09 12:10 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-09 21:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-10 6:40 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-10 9:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-10 12:36 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-18 11:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-10 15:36 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-10 16:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-11 10:09 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-11 10:48 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-11 13:39 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-11 14:45 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-11 15:53 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-11 18:16 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-14 8:26 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-14 11:26 ` liviu.dudau
2016-11-18 10:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-18 12:07 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-18 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-18 12:53 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-18 13:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-18 16:18 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-18 16:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-18 17:03 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-23 14:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-23 15:22 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-23 17:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-23 23:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-24 9:12 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-24 10:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-25 8:46 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-25 12:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-25 16:27 ` Gabriele Paoloni
2016-11-11 16:54 ` zhichang.yuan
2016-11-14 11:06 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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