[PATCH 1/2] mxc: add common debug board for 3-stack platforms

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Jun 21 03:11:48 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:06:34PM +0800, jason wrote:
> Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>   
>>> The debug board is little different for all mxc 3-stack(PDK)
>>> platforms, it is possible here to add a common implementation to
>>> support this board.
>>>     
>>
>> Two small things left:
>>
>> Could you change the name cpld_debugboard.c to something like
>> 3ds_debugboard.c? That we are talking about the 3ds is much more
>> interesting than that there's a cpld on the board.
>>
>> Also, I really prefer having no extra header file for the debug board.
>> All information in this header file is only interesting in this single C
>> file.
>>
>> Sascha
>>
>>
>>   
> Hi Sascha,
>
> About the header file, most contents can be moved to c file,
> but there are two declarations:
>
> extern struct platform_device smsc_lan9217_device;

What do you need this one for?

> int __init mxc_expio_init(u32 base, u32 p_irq);

You'll definitely need this one of course.

>
> which will be used by board_mxNN_3ds.c, should i move them to mach/common.h and
> drop 3ds_debugboard.h or keep them in 3ds_debugboard.h?

Keep them in 3ds_debugboard.h. This way we can easily grep for all users
of the 3ds debug board code.

Sascha


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