Hi DM Team,
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Marek Vasut marek.vasut@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Marek Vasut,
I'm submitting hereby the initial code for the driver model. This is a RFC patch, please give it a spin and scream :-)
I haven't had a really deep play with this yet, but a couple of things do come to mind...
I've been thinking of a scenario of a simple LED module with both a Serial (RS-232) and USB interface (or maybe an I2C connection). I can think of two options: a) Write a separate driver for each interface b) Write a single driver that can handle all supported interfaces
If going with option b, the LED driver is going to need to know what type of interface it is attached on in order for it to issue the correct commands to the upstream driver. I can't see a way in the current model to determine the type of the upstream driver
Another thought is naming if instances (this was in particular relation to stdio) - If you have two UARTS onboard, it would make sense to name them in U-Boot according to how they are named on the board (UART1 / UART2, Port 1 / Port 2, Console / Diagnostics, etc.) and when directing stdio, using the name of the port.
Regards,
Graeme