[U-Boot] [PATCH 10/13] at91: move usb driver to drivers/usb

Remy Bohmer linux at bohmer.net
Wed Apr 1 09:25:21 CEST 2009


Hello Stefan,

> From what I remember we all agreed to move the device drivers (e.g. ethernet,
> NAND, USB, serial etc) from the architecture/board (cpu/... board/...) to the
> drivers directories at some time.
>
> Speaking for PPC4xx, the 4xx ethernet driver has recently been moved from
> cpu/ppc4xx to drivers/net. And I'm planning to move the 4xx NAND driver (and
> others) soon too.
>
> So if this atmel_usb.c driver isn't just platform USB init code, but a real
> USB driver, then I'm voting to move it to drivers/usb as well.

And that is exactly the issue here. The discussion is about moving
'platform USB init code' to generic driver code.
I would have no problems with moving real USB drivers to the generic
driver section, if they are cleaned from board specific code, of
course.


Kind Regards,

Remy


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