[PATCH v4 10/19] irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 3 17:09:48 EST 2013


Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:44:51 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
> > From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> > 
> > Now that we have GIC moved to drivers/irqchip and all GIC DT init
> > for platforms using irqchip_init, move gic.h and update the
> > remaining includes.
> 
> Can you elaborate on why this is done? Does any other code rely on the
> header file being globally visible, or is there a more general reason
> to move header files out of asm/ ?

From what I remember, Russell said that if the driver moves away from
arch/arm/, so should the header file.

Thomas
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