linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] ST SPEAr: Added ARM PrimeXsys System Controller SP810 header file

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Message-ID: <4B99CEFE.2080505@st.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:49:58 +0530
From:	Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>,
	rajeev-dlh.kumar@...com, shiraz.hashim@...com,
	armando.visconti@...com, ashish.priyadarshi@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vipin.kumar@...com, amit.goel@...com,
	deepak.sikri@...com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] ST SPEAr: Added ARM PrimeXsys System Controller
 SP810 header file

On 3/11/2010 4:15 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:14:53PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> 2010/3/3 Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar@...com>:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/sysctl_sp810.h |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/sysctl_sp810.h
>>> (...)
>>
>> To the rest of the world this is probably a number of register definitions and
>> an obscure inline function, so the entire internal kernel API does not need
>> to know about it.
> 
> It'll also give people heart-attacks because they'll think it adds a new
> set of deprecated binary sysctl() interfaces to the kernel.
> 
> Best drop the 'sysctl' part of the name as well.
> 

OK. will be removed.
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