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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:37:43 +0200
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [RFC] ARM: treewide: manually change more mach-*/*.h
 includes

On 08/23/2012 01:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann :
> On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:01:19PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> These are lots of device drivers that include machine
>>> specific header files from ARM platforms and that are
>>> not easily scriptable. The changes have been found through
>>> manual inspection and should cause no visible changes
>>> because of the build script that maps the old names to the
>>> new ones.

[..]

> How about I move all the pure platform data definition files now and
> rebase the other patches on top of that. Here is a list of suggested
> file names in include/linux/platform_data/:
> 
> mach-at91/at_hdmac.h		-> dma-atmel.h

Fine with me. Maybe atmel-dma.h can better match what we already have in
this directory, but I do not know what is the policy in this directory...

[..]


> ** list of mach/* inclusions that I could not match with
> ** exactly one ARM platform:

In fact, for "*atmel*" type of files, they usually match *both* AVR32
and ARM/AT91 devices: so, we have to be careful about them...

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre
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