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From: tony@atomide•com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: allow platforms to use generic headers without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:33:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130515233335.GO5600@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5192532B.1070705@gmail.com>

* Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail•com> [130514 08:12]:
> On 05/14/2013 06:27 AM, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> > Currently the use of generic mach headers is only is controlled by the same
> > config option as selection of a multiplatform kernel (i.e.
> > ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM). However, there are cases where it is valid to use the
> > generic headers but still build a single platform kernel.
> > 
> > One such example is when using the vexpress platform with a core that does
> > not have an MMU; a multiplatform kernel does not make sense, but use of the
> > generic headers is required by the vexpress platform since 617276307cd4c
> > ("ARM: vexpress: convert to multi-platform").
> > 
> > This patch untangles these two options by introducing a new
> > ARM_GENERIC_HEADERS config option that ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM selects. Other
> > platforms can now select ARM_GENERIC_HEADERS independently.
> 
> I find this name confusing. It is no headers you are selecting and
> generic is a bit overused IMHO. So how about something like
> NEED_NO_MACH_HEADERS to somewhat align to the other header related
> config options (e.g. NEED_MACH_GPIO_H).

Hmm it _looks_ like this won't allow the drivers again to
#include <plat/*.h> and <mach/*.h>. Have you checked that?

It might be worth checking as we really don't want to go back there
again.. Currently arch/arm/Makefile has:

ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM),y)
ifeq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(patsubst %,-I%include,$(machdirs) $(platdirs))
else
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(patsubst %,-I$(srctree)/%include,$(machdirs) $(platdirs))
endif
endif

So you may need to do something there to prevent drivers from again
including machdirs and platdirs.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-15 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-14 11:27 [PATCH v2 0/3] Separate generic header usage from ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM Jonathan Austin
2013-05-14 11:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: allow platforms to use generic headers without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM Jonathan Austin
2013-05-14 15:07   ` Rob Herring
2013-05-15 23:33     ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2013-05-21 16:25       ` Jonathan Austin
2013-05-23  2:06         ` Tony Lindgren
2013-05-21 16:36     ` Jonathan Austin
2013-05-14 11:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: nommu: re-enable use of vexpress " Jonathan Austin
2013-05-14 11:31   ` Pawel Moll
2013-05-14 11:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ARM: vexpress-nommu: add a Makefile.boot to restore single-platform build Jonathan Austin

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