[PATCH v3 0/9] Convert OMAP GPMC to driver

[Mohammed, Afzal]

Hi Tony,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 22:14:25, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Once driver is acceptable, platform code for other peripherals
> > connected via GPMC would be adapted to make use of GPMC driver. And
> > then the board modifications. But before that HWMOD entry has to be
> > populated for respective SoC(s ?).
>  
> No, we can't do it this way, it breaks things. We need to first
> convert everything to use the new GPMC driver, then move it. 

Sorry, my statements were not clear, I meant once driver is
acceptable & still living in mach-omap2, platform code dealing
with peripherals on gpmc would be adapted to make use of gpmc
driver. Moving driver to new location is only planned as a
separate commit after, before mentioned changes. Hope with this
clarification we are on same track. 

>  
> > Now DESTINATION FOR THIS DRIVER has to be decided. Original plan was
> > to consider GPMC as MFD. The peripheral(s) connected to GPMC being
> > considered childs of MFD.
> 
> Let's not put it into MFD. This is a bus driver. But that
> decision can wait as we cleary have quite a few things to convert
> first under arch/arm/mach-omap2.
>  
> > Various options that could be seen so far on where this driver can go,
> > 1. mfd
> > 2. misc
> > 3. drivers/platform/arm/ (create an new one?)
> > 4. memory (create a new one ?)
> 
> It's a parallel bus driver, not memory not misc, not MFD.

Greg suggested to send gpmc driver to new memory folder.

In the next version, gpmc driver would still be in mach-omap2,
moving to new location can be done later.

Regards
Afzal