linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] msm: scm: Move the scm driver to drivers/soc/qcom

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:19:37 -0500
From:	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] msm: scm: Move the scm driver to drivers/soc/qcom

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net> wrote:
> I just saw this in the pull request from Kumar, so this is a bit late
> w.r.t. to the patch, but so was his merging of the code. :)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Architectural changes in the ARM Linux kernel tree mandate
>> the eventual removal of the mach-* directories. Move the
>> scm driver to drivers/soc/qcom and the scm header to
>> include/soc/qcom to support that removal.
>
> The idea is not blindly move one dumping ground to a new place.
>
> I see only two exported functions from scm.c:
>
> scm_get_version: This is not used anywhere in the kernel and can just be removed
> scm_call: This is used by scm-boot, and would be better to translate
> over to firmware_ops in the first place.
>
>
> So, can you please rework this with the above in mind instead of just
> moving the files over? Thanks!
>


jfyi, we have some pending drm/msm patches blocked on this move

(not trying to comment one way or another on whether all or some
should be moved..  just pointing out there would be more in-tree users
of it if it was moved)

BR,
-R

>
> -Olof
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