[PATCH v2 2/4] drivers: firmware: xilinx: Add ZynqMP firmware driver
Jolly Shah
JOLLYS at xilinx.com
Wed Jan 24 15:28:12 PST 2018
Thanks for review Greg,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:38 AM
> To: Jolly Shah <JOLLYS at xilinx.com>
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> <RAJANV at xilinx.com>; Jolly Shah <JOLLYS at xilinx.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] drivers: firmware: xilinx: Add ZynqMP firmware
> driver
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:20:32PM -0800, Jolly Shah wrote:
> > This patch is adding communication layer with firmware.
> > Firmware driver provides an interface to firmware APIs.
> > Interface APIs can be used by any driver to communicate to
> > PMUFW(Platform Management Unit). All requests go through ATF.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <jollys at xilinx.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <rajanv at xilinx.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/xilinx/Kconfig | 4 +
> > drivers/firmware/xilinx/Makefile | 4 +
> > drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp/Kconfig | 16 +
> > drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp/Makefile | 4 +
> > drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp/firmware.c | 987
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp/firmware.h | 570 ++++++++++++++
>
> Why does this file need to be in include/linux/ at all? Shouldn't it just live in the
> driver-specific subdir?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
It is used by multiple drivers so can not live in driver specific subdir.
Thanks,
Jolly Shah
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