From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755222AbaIVWYN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:24:13 -0400 Received: from mail-bn1bon0140.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.111.140]:32465 "EHLO na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754684AbaIVWYL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:24:11 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 947 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:24:11 EDT Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:03:07 -0500 From: Kim Phillips To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 CC: Rivera Jose-B46482 , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Wood Scott-B07421 , "agraf@suse.de" , "linuxppc-release@linux.freescale.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex bus driver patch series Message-ID: <20140922170307.fdcbfb495695c03833ff6c53@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <0e13cde24a284873ab6f65f7e5ffdb3e@CY1PR0301MB0748.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: <1411166981-3610-1-git-send-email-German.Rivera@freescale.com> <20140922115328.7d6fa30635ed52de425f9ebc@freescale.com> <0e13cde24a284873ab6f65f7e5ffdb3e@CY1PR0301MB0748.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Organization: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EOPAttributedMessage: 0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:192.88.158.2;CTRY:US;IPV:CAL;IPV:NLI;EFV:NLI;SFV:NSPM;SFS:(10019020)(6009001)(199003)(51704005)(377454003)(189002)(24454002)(87936001)(19580405001)(6806004)(4396001)(93916002)(46406003)(105606002)(68736004)(76176999)(120916001)(90102001)(81156004)(62966002)(23726002)(86362001)(104166001)(77982003)(87286001)(69596002)(92726001)(83072002)(83322001)(44976005)(89996001)(74502003)(84676001)(36756003)(77156001)(26826002)(19580395003)(85852003)(106466001)(47776003)(21056001)(81542003)(76482002)(85306004)(50466002)(104016003)(31966008)(92566001)(80022003)(97736003)(100306002)(50226001)(79102003)(50986999)(110136001)(64706001)(46102003)(20776003)(74662003)(95666004)(88136002)(107046002)(33646002)(81342003)(102836001)(99396002)(10300001);DIR:OUT;SFP:1102;SCL:1;SRVR:BY2PR03MB331;H:az84smr01.freescale.net;FPR:;MLV:ovrnspm;PTR:InfoDomainNonexistent;A:1;MX:1;LANG:en; X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;UriScan:; X-Forefront-PRVS: 034215E98F Authentication-Results: spf=fail (sender IP is 192.88.158.2) smtp.mailfrom=Kim.Phillips@freescale.com; X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:59:21 -0500 Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > > From: Kim Phillips [mailto:kim.phillips@freescale.com] > > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:53 AM > > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:49:38 -0500 > > "J. German Rivera" wrote: > > > > > CHANGE HISTORY > > > > > > Issues pending resolution not addressed by v2: > > > - What to do with Doxygen comments in patch 1 > > > > It's clear they should be removed. > > > > > - Whether to move or not FSL-specific header files added in include/linux, > > > by this patch series, to another location > > > > there wasn't a valid objection against moving them under fsl/ and > > changing them to use dashes instead of underscores, was there? > > There was no objection, but here is the observation. The current > convention seems to be that under include/linux are 'subsystem' > types-- > include/linux/mmc > include/linux/spi > include/linux/raid > etc > > There is no other "company" that has an include/linux/[company-name] that I can > see. Freescale seems to be the only one. And there is only a single driver > in there. So it looks like a complete anomaly. > > Why is that? > > I guess we could try moving our stuff to incluce/linux/fsl and see if there is > any negative feedback on it. these two commits: commit 9a32299 "powerpc, dma: move bestcomm driver from arch/powerpc/sysdev to drivers/dma" commit 3946860 "mxs-dma : move the mxs dma.h to a more common place" create/update files in include/linux/fsl for the same reason as this patchseries wants, i.e., in order to support multiple drivers including the files, and in an arch- (and mach-) independent manner. hth, Kim