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Message-ID: <20170520171442.scgss76fbawsmhjd@kozik-lap>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 19:14:42 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-RFT 2/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split Exynos drivers per ARMv7
and ARMv8
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 07:12:13PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > Exynos pinctrl drivers contain pretty big per-SoC data structures. The
> > pinctrl-exynos object file contained code and data for both ARMv7 and
> > ARMv8 SoCs thus it grew big. There will not be a shared image between
> > ARMv7 and ARMv8 so there is no need to combine all of this into one
> > driver.
> >
> > Splitting the data allows to make it more granular (e.g. code related to
> > ARMv8 Exynos is self-contained), slightly speed up the compilation and
> > reduce the effective size of compiled kernel.
> >
> > The common data structures and functions reside still in existing
> > pinctrl-exynos.c. Only the SoC-specific parts were moved out to new
> > files. Except marking few functions non-static and adding them to
> > header, there were no functional changes in the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> I guess I will get this from you with a pull request?
Yes, I'll send it to you with pull request.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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