[PATCH] kirkwood: add dir-665 support

Hirundo Cam camhirundo at gmail.com
Tue May 3 22:36:04 EDT 2011


Hi Mike,

2011/5/4  <mike at compulab.co.il>:
> Hello Hirundo Cam,
>
> I'm not Kirkwood expert, so my comments are quite general.

That's O.K.. It still helped other thing

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:34:46AM +0800, Hirundo Cam wrote:
>> This patch is a hack to dir-665 by referencing mv88f6281gtw_ge board.
>> LEDs, GPIO, Buttons remains unknown.
>>
>> To use this patch, u-boot must also be modified.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hirundo Cam <camhirundo at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig            |    6 ++
>>  arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Makefile           |    1 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/mv88f6281_dir665.c |  107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/tools/mach-types                 |    1 +
>>  4 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/mv88f6281_dir665.c
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig
>> index 7fc603b..296d97f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig
>> @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ config MACH_MV88F6281GTW_GE
>>         Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>>         Marvell 88F6281 GTW GE Board.
>>
>> +config MACH_MV88F6281_DIR665
>> +     bool "Marvell 88F6281 DIR665 Board"
>> +     help
>
> Citing checkpatch.pl:
> "WARNIING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully"

I've used checkpatch. and get this WARNING too.
But I didn't understand how the paragraph is wrong.
This section just as other sections. Should I add
this line "Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the" into
th paragraph?

> Please check what headers are actually needed. I belieive that
> linux/input.h, linux/leds.h, linux/gpio.h and most probably many others
> can be safely removed.

Shouldn't I keep these stuff for future discovered LED and GPIOs?


> You should add the dir665 machine into the machine registry at
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ rather than modify the
> mach-types file.

Thanks for your information.

Regards,
Hirundo Cam.



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