[RFC][PATCH] ssb: separate common scanning functions

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/18 George Kashperko <george at znau.edu.ua>:
> Current ssb code ideology isn't really good place to start with support
> for ai backplanes. Its really great to see you willing to get ai
> supported in mainline but I'm sure this should be done apart from the
> ssb code and not even with one as the design decisions origin. Several
> concepts the ssb is based on are not designed to support anything else
> than ocp/sb and will require workarounds to suport ai.
> Thanks to Michael I had a time to think over the possibly code
> abstraction for shared sb and ai support. And while I'm still sure the
> patchwork for ai over ssb support is of good use as some intermediate
> decision to support ai-based hardware in sertain distributions but now I
> support Michael in that such (hopefully) a temporary buildups should not
> be in mainline.

Please, give some concrete arguments, which part of design does not match AI.

My patch has shown we need to duplicate 40% of SSB's scanning code.
What for example about pci.c? Which functions from that file won't be
duplicated in totally separated?

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Rafał