[PATCH 02/17] ARM clps711x: Added Cirrus Logic EP7312 CPU variant

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 01:58:28PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 21 April 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The headers still have to end up being in an accessible place, and having
> > drivers include the minimum required is a good idea.  Merely moving them
> > into include/mach and updating the include statements as far as I'd go.
> > (and I've never liked the idea of mach/hardware.h being an "include the
> > world for this platform" header file.)
> 
> Digging a bit deeper into clps711x, I found that with Alexander's patch
> series applied, there is nothing that actually includes the three
> asm/hardware/ep7*.h files. I wonder about the motivation behind providing
> them. Any reason we can't just remove those three files altogher?

To me it looks like there isn't anything using any definitions from those
ep721*.h files, so there's little point them existing.  And they've not
changed since 2.6.12-rc2 either...  I'd suggest just getting rid of those
two headers entirely.