[PATCH] Voipac PXA270

Eric Miao eric.y.miao at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 22:10:52 EDT 2010


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dne St 10. března 2010 14:35:29 Daniel Mack napsal(a):
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:37:26PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> > Dne St 10. března 2010 07:18:40 Mike Rapoport napsal(a):
>> > > Do these defines really deserve dedicated .h file? Why cannot they live
>> > > in the arch/arm/mach-pxa/vpac270.c?
>> >
>> > I'm not moving this in. I dont want to polute the .c file with stuff that
>> > should obviously go into the header file. Besides there'll be more GPIOs
>> > defined and that'd make the .c file less readable, which I want to avoid.
>>
>> The question is - are they shared? If they're not and will never be used
>> by anything else then this .c file, I'd also vote for not having an
>> extra header file for them.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
> Yes, they are used in the PCMCIA driver. And I'd rather avoid having GPIO
> definitions scattered across multiple files.
>

Mmm... that's because PCMCIA driver is not abstracted well enough to
allow all platform specific stuffs back into board file. Once that's done,
these shared definitions could be avoided to live in a separate header
file. For now, it's OK.



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