[PATCH] Alchemy: XXS1500 PCMCIA driver rewrite

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Fri Oct 2 08:54:23 EDT 2009


> >> Rewritten XXS1500 PCMCIA socket driver, standalone (doesn't
> >> depend on au1000_generic.c) and added carddetect IRQ support.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the details here. Why did you choose to drop the generic
> > au1000-part for this and the other driver?
> 
> I want to get rid of au1000_generic.[ch] eventually or at least all of its
> contents except the static mapping and resource allocation functions, which
> are board- independent.  On the other hand these are so short that I opted to
> just duplicate them into the xxs1500_ss.c and db1xxx_ss.c (other patch)
> files.  The db1xxx_ss (for the Alchemy demoboards) is supposed to be an
> example on how to set up PCMCIA on Alchemy SoCs.

Yeah, I saw that you want to remove it, still I don't know why :) Is it feature
incomplete and updating is impossible? Is the concept outdated? Could you
enlighten me on that?

Regards,

   Wolfram

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