[PATCH v5 3/4] pci: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc PCIe support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Mar 10 15:39:08 PDT 2015


On Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:22:36 Ray Jui wrote:
> > Do you anticipate additional front-end bus interfaces?  If not, and maybe
> > even if you do, you might squash everything into pcie-iproc.c.  Then you
> > only need one file (no .h file needed) and the package is a little
> > simpler.  I think it's pretty common to have multiple driver registration
> > methods in the same file (OF, PCI, ACPI, etc.)  And I think it's common to
> > have those methods guarded by the generic config symbol (CONFIG_PCI,
> > CONFIG_OF, etc.) rather than defining new ones specific to the driver.
> > 
> 
> Yes I do expect Hauke (CCed) to add BCMA bus front end support later.
> 
> I still think having the front end bus driver separated is cleaner and
> may be less troublesome for Hauke to add BCMA support in the future. But
> if you strongly favor having everything stuffed in one single file, I
> can make that change. Please let me know.
> 

I was the one that initially suggested splitting the driver into files
like this, and I still think it's the right strategy with the
BCMA driver coming up.

	Arnd



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