[RFC 3/7] bcm47xx-sprom: add Broadcom sprom parser driver

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 26 August 2014 23:32, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> On 08/25/2014 09:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Sunday 24 August 2014 23:24:41 Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                               |  14 +
>>>  drivers/misc/Makefile                              |   1 +
>>>  drivers/misc/bcm47xx-sprom.c                       | 690 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> On a similar note, putting the driver into drivers/misc seems
>> suboptimal: misc drivers should by definition be something that
>> is for some odd hardware with no external dependencies on it,
>> whereas your driver seems to be used by multiple other drivers.
>>
>> Would it make sense to put it into drivers/bcma when that is the
>> only bus it is used on?
>
> As Jonas already said this code should be used for the bcm53xx ARM code
> and the bcm47xx MIPS code and it is needed for drivers/bcma/ and
> drivers/ssb/ (ssb only for old mips devices). Do you have any better
> idea than putting this to drivers/misc/ ? For the mips SoC we need the
> code very early and will not use the driver interface but probably
> directly call the function name.

Ping? Does anyone have any better idea?

Both: nvram and sprom drivers will be used by bcm47xx (mips) and
bcm53xx (arm). They can't be put in drivers/bcma, as they are used by
drivers/ssb as well.