[PATCH 1/9] SOC: brcmstb: add memory API

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Oct 17 23:46:49 PDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:12:22AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Please move this into the arm arch code.
> 
> No, this needs to work on both ARM and ARM64, hence the reason why this
> is in a reasonably architecture neutral place.

So there is no other shared code between the ARM and ARM64 ports for
this SOC?

> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_phys_addr_to_memc);
> > 
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_memc_size);
> > 
> > Why is this exported?
> 
> Because the PCIE RC driver can be built as a module.

Hmm, supporting PCIE RC as module sounds odd, but it seems like there
are a few others like that.  At least make it EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() then
to document the internal nature.



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