linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/17] ARM clps711x: Added Cirrus Logic EP7312 CPU variant

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Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:13:21 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@...l.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] ARM clps711x: Added Cirrus Logic EP7312 CPU
	variant

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 01:58:28PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 21 April 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The headers still have to end up being in an accessible place, and having
> > drivers include the minimum required is a good idea.  Merely moving them
> > into include/mach and updating the include statements as far as I'd go.
> > (and I've never liked the idea of mach/hardware.h being an "include the
> > world for this platform" header file.)
> 
> Digging a bit deeper into clps711x, I found that with Alexander's patch
> series applied, there is nothing that actually includes the three
> asm/hardware/ep7*.h files. I wonder about the motivation behind providing
> them. Any reason we can't just remove those three files altogher?

To me it looks like there isn't anything using any definitions from those
ep721*.h files, so there's little point them existing.  And they've not
changed since 2.6.12-rc2 either...  I'd suggest just getting rid of those
two headers entirely.
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