ChipCommon as independent driver?

[Michael Büsch]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:21 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 
> W dniu 1 kwietnia 2011 18:15 użytkownik Michael Büsch <mb at bu3sch.de> napisał:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:06 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> W dniu 1 kwietnia 2011 18:00 użytkownik Michael Büsch <mb at bu3sch.de> napisał:
> >> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:49 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> >> Do you have idea how we could nicely solve that issue?
> >> >
> >> > Yeah. Just don't share code between ssb and bcmai.
> >> > That's the only clean solution to that mess.
> >>
> >> Do you want to have core drivers separated as well? Really? Should we
> >> have separated pci core? chiccommon core?
> >
> > Yes. Those "drivers" are a mess full of ssb specific workarounds
> > to hardware limitations.
> 
> I really don't understand what you meant in:
> 
> 2011/2/18 Michael Büsch <mb at bu3sch.de>:
> > Note that this does not mean that we need to duplicate the MIPS,
> > common and probably pci core drivers. A hybrid module can be done,
> > if that's desired to avoid code duplication.
> 
> then :|

_can_ be done.
That doesn't mean it must be done or whether it's a good idea to do so.

It certainly is possible to do so, but I don't think it makes
a lot of sense.

-- 
Greetings Michael.