Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 4/5] powerpc/fsl: move mpc85xx.h to include/linux/fsl

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:31:48 -0500

On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 13:24 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday, July 16, 2016 9:50:21 PM CEST Scott Wood wrote:
> > 
> > From: yangbo lu <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Move mpc85xx.h to include/linux/fsl and rename it to svr.h as a common
> > header file.  This SVR numberspace is used on some ARM chips as well as
> > PPC, and even to check for a PPC SVR multi-arch drivers would otherwise
> > need to ifdef the header inclusion and all references to the SVR symbols.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <[email-masked]>
> > Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <[email-masked]>
> > Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <[email-masked]>
> > Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <[email-masked]>
> > [scottwood: update description]
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
> > 
> As discussed before, please don't introduce yet another vendor specific
> way to match a SoC ID from a device driver.
> 
> I've posted a patch for an extension to the soc_device infrastructure
> to allow comparing the running SoC to a table of devices, use that
> instead.

As I asked before, in which relevant maintainership capacity are you NACKing
this?

-Scott