linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] mfd: Move pm8xxx-irq.c contents into only driver that uses it

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Message-ID: <20131211093552.GG16780@lee--X1>
Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:35:52 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mfd: Move pm8xxx-irq.c contents into only driver
 that uses it

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> The pm8xxx-irq.c code is practically mandatory given that the
> pm8921-core driver will WARN about it missing and the Kconfig
> marks it as default y when a PM8xxx chips is enabled. The only
> reason the file was split out was because we planned to support
> other pm8xxx chips with different pm8xxx-core.c files. Now that
> we have DT on ARM this isn't necessary because we should be able
> to support all the ssbi based PM8xxx chips in one driver and one
> file with no data bloat. Let's move this code into the only
> driver that uses it right now (pm8921) so that it's always compiled when
> needed. In the future we can rename pm8921-core.c to something
> more generic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig       |  10 --
>  drivers/mfd/pm8921-core.c | 349 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/mfd/pm8xxx-irq.c  | 371 ----------------------------------------------

If you're going to take this approach (which I'm fine with unless
there are likely to be anymore incarnations of pm8xxx chips?), I think
you should also clean-up the header in this patch.

  include/linux/mfd/pm8xxx/irq.h

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Lee Jones
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