Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:48:16 -0400 | From | Christopher Covington <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] Introduce drivers/soc and add QCOM GSBI driver |
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Hi Andy,
On 04/21/2014 01:30 AM, Andy Gross wrote: > The first patch in this set adds the drivers/soc directory and all the necessary > plumbing. These changes were discussed at the kernel summit and also were > introduced in an earlier patch set from Santosh Shilimkar. > > Reference the following set of patches: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/28/567
In that thread, Olof wrote, "The code [going into drivers/soc] isn't the pure drivers. Those we find homes for."
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/2/123
> The remaining patches add the QCOM GSBI (General Serial Bus Interface) driver, > device tree binding information for both the GSBI and child node interaction, > and lastly a patch to fix the current MSM serial driver to work correctly with > the GSBI changes.
It's not obvious to me what makes the GSBI driver "impure" and unfit for say drivers/bus. Could you perhaps include a brief explanation?
Thanks, Christopher
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