[PATCH 02/12][v3] pci: fsl: add structure fsl_pci

[Zang Roy-R61911]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:11 PM
> To: Lian Minghuan-B31939
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org list; Arnd Bergmann; Zang Roy-R61911;
> Wood Scott-B07421; Bjorn Helgaas; linux-pci at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-
> kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12][v3] pci: fsl: add structure fsl_pci
> 
> 
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Minghuan Lian wrote:
> 
> > PowerPC uses structure pci_controller to describe PCI controller, but
> > ARM uses structure pci_sys_data. In order to support PowerPC and ARM
> > simultaneously, the patch adds a structure fsl_pci that contains most
> > of the members of the pci_controller and pci_sys_data.
> > Meanwhile, it defines a interface fsl_arch_sys_to_pci() which should
> > be implemented in architecture-specific PCI controller driver to
> > convert pci_controller or pci_sys_data to fsl_pci.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minghuan Lian <Minghuan.Lian at freescale.com>
> > ---
> > change log:
> > v1-v3:
> > Derived from http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/278965/
> >
> > Based on upstream master.
> > Based on the discussion of RFC version here
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/274487/
> >
> > include/linux/fsl/pci-common.h | 41
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> 
> NAK.
> 
> We discussed this some at the ARM Summit this week and the feeling is we
> need to move to a common interface between the various ARCHs.

Can you share more about the *common interface*?
Any plan to implement the  * common interface*?
Thanks.
Roy