[PATCH 2/2] ARM: mvebu: move Armada 370/XP specific definitions to armada-370-xp.h

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Dec 26 11:49:20 EST 2013


Dear Andrew Lunn,

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:18:06 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> > As it is today, none of the contents of armada-370-xp.h are useful for
> > Armada 370. However, the "main" file is also named armada-370-xp.c and
> > handles both SoC, so it made sense to have a file named armada-370-xp.h
> > as well.
> 
> Hi Thomas
> 
> So thinking about dove, kirkwood, this new SoC, all living in mvebu,
> should we have a board-dt.c file which all SoCs share, and then one
> .c/.h pair of files per SoC? I'm saying this without looking at the
> actual content, so i've no idea is this is actually possible. I guess
> we need to do something like this sometime, but does it need to be
> now?

I think it's a bit hard to see now what will be the common parts. I
personally would worry too much about this though, as code can easily be
reorganized as needed as we see patterns emerge and gain a better
understanding of what's common and what's specific.

Thomas
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