[PATCH] Alchemy: XXS1500 PCMCIA driver rewrite

[Manuel Lauss]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
>> >> 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 Is the concept outdated?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?

I started out with the intention to fix its styling issues, add carddetect irq
support, etc.  In the end it was easier to write a quick-and-dirty standalone
full-features socket driver for the DB1200 and extend it to support the
other DB/PB boards. While I was at it I modified my driver for the xxs1500,
that's all.

The only *technical* reason I have is a personal dislike for how the current
one works: it forces every conceivable board to add dozens of cpp macros
for mem/io ranges and gets registered by board-independent code.
Hardly convincing, I know.

        Manuel Lauss