Further OCP cleanups

Armin Kuster akuster at mvista.com
Sat May 18 07:45:05 EST 2002


David Gibson wrote:
> The patch below follows up on paulus' cleanups of the OCP EMAC driver
> with further cleanups in the OCP layer and its drivers.  It does
> several things:
> 	- Renames the ocpdev field of struct ocp_driver to private,
> which is more descriptive of its actual function.
> 	- removes a redundant INIT_LIST_HEAD from ocp_register
> 	- moves the registration of the miscdev for the GPIO driver
> into the driver itself, from ocp.c
> 	- removes the irq_resource field of the ocp_enet_private
> structure, since it was essentially unused.
> 	- with the help of those last two remove the ugly switch
> statements from ocp_register() and ocp_unregister()
> 	- removed the procdir field from ocp_driver structure, since
> it always had the same value
> 	- remove the fops field from the ocp_driver structure, since
> it was only used by the GPIO driver and then always held the same
> value
> 	- cleanup of the MAL DCR handling code.  No more mal.sh,
> autogenerated ibm_ocp_mal.c or MBASE[].  Instead we use a magic macro
> to generate a switch across the MAL base address.  More to come which
> will cause this to be completely optimised away on machines with only
> one MAL (the majority)
> 	- Move the IIC_DEV macro into the .c files which use it, since
> it clearly belongs to the I2C code itself, rather than to the OCP
> layer.  More to come which will eliminate this macro entirely, as
> EMAC_DEV was removed by paulus' patch
> 	- Update ibm_ocp_debug.c to work with paulus' changes, also
> cleanup some ugliness
> 	- Remove the 'priv_index', 'devfs_handle' and 'active' fields
> from struct ocp_driver, since they appear to be unused.
>
> If you have no objections I will commit this to linuxppc_2_4_devel.
>


David,

  The IIC_DEV change is ok and the _debug.c changes are fine but  I
would like to hold off on the rest.  I am not satisfied with the tx/rx
channel mal case/switch stuff in the *_enet.c and the ibmnp405h.c was
missed

armin


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