[RFC PATCH 0/4] ARM: make mach/hardware.h optional
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Jun 28 19:24:22 EDT 2011
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>
> Currently, all ARM platforms must have a mach/hardware.h include. This is
> because it is ultimately included by linux/pci.h which is included in many
> places even for !CONFIG_PCI.
>
> This could be fixed simply with an ifdef around the include of mach/hardware.h
> in asm/pci.h. However, in the interest of fixing this for single kernel
> binary builds, this series removes the include of mach/hardware.h outside of
> mach-* and plat-*. What's used from hardware.h is a couple of PCI defines.
> Converting them to variables allows each platform to set the values as needed.
Excellent ! This is certainly moving things in the right direction.
For the 4 patches, you can add:
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
Obviously for patch 1/4 it would be nice to have the opinion of the PCI
maintainer as well.
Nicolas
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