[PATCH 8/8] msm: scm: Move the scm driver to drivers/soc/qcom
Rob Clark
robdclark at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 17:19:37 PST 2015
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> I just saw this in the pull request from Kumar, so this is a bit late
> w.r.t. to the patch, but so was his merging of the code. :)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Architectural changes in the ARM Linux kernel tree mandate
>> the eventual removal of the mach-* directories. Move the
>> scm driver to drivers/soc/qcom and the scm header to
>> include/soc/qcom to support that removal.
>
> The idea is not blindly move one dumping ground to a new place.
>
> I see only two exported functions from scm.c:
>
> scm_get_version: This is not used anywhere in the kernel and can just be removed
> scm_call: This is used by scm-boot, and would be better to translate
> over to firmware_ops in the first place.
>
>
> So, can you please rework this with the above in mind instead of just
> moving the files over? Thanks!
>
jfyi, we have some pending drm/msm patches blocked on this move
(not trying to comment one way or another on whether all or some
should be moved.. just pointing out there would be more in-tree users
of it if it was moved)
BR,
-R
>
> -Olof
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