[PATCH-RFT 2/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split Exynos drivers per ARMv7 and ARMv8
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sat May 20 10:12:13 PDT 2017
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
> Exynos pinctrl drivers contain pretty big per-SoC data structures. The
> pinctrl-exynos object file contained code and data for both ARMv7 and
> ARMv8 SoCs thus it grew big. There will not be a shared image between
> ARMv7 and ARMv8 so there is no need to combine all of this into one
> driver.
>
> Splitting the data allows to make it more granular (e.g. code related to
> ARMv8 Exynos is self-contained), slightly speed up the compilation and
> reduce the effective size of compiled kernel.
>
> The common data structures and functions reside still in existing
> pinctrl-exynos.c. Only the SoC-specific parts were moved out to new
> files. Except marking few functions non-static and adding them to
> header, there were no functional changes in the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
I guess I will get this from you with a pull request?
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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