[PATCH] mach-bcm: clean up config and build targets

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Thu Apr 3 13:49:19 PDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 15:30 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Currently CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_MOBILE is used to select all Broadcom
> mobile SoCs.  Instead, use that only as a config menu switch, and
> define specific symbols like CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_281XX to select a
> particular SoC family.  If ARCH_BCM_MOBILE is selected, all of the
> SoCs will be selected by default, but this way each can be disabled
> individually as well.
> 
> This allows more precision in controlling what gets built under
> mach-bcm.  Another benefit to doing this is that it makes it obvious
> that the code that implements SMC calls to control L2 cache is only
> used for BCM281XX (for example).
> 
> Also use Kbuild's $(<modulename>-y) variable mechanism to build a
> single object file containing everything used for the bcm281xx board
> in arch/arm/mach-bcm.
> 
> Note:  This patch is based on the current arm-soc/for-next branch:
>     e98cd72 arm-soc: document samsung merges
> 
> The patch is available here:
>     http://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/broadcom/kernel.git
>     Branch review/mach-bcm-cleanup

It seems the last two paragraphs should actually be below the "---"
marker. There's no need to include them in the commit explanation, is
there?

> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
> ---


Paul Bolle




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