RE: [PATCH 4/7] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC bus driver to match MC fw 7.0.0

From: Jose Rivera
Date: Mon May 04 2015 - 20:13:21 EST




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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC bus driver to match
> MC fw 7.0.0
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:39:07PM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote:
> > - Migrated MC bus driver to use DPRC flib 0.6.
>
> What does this mean? What is a flib?
>
The DPRC flib is the API to manipulate DPRC objects.

> After reading the patch, apparently it means that we can remove all the
> ifdefs from patch 1. :)
>
No, we cannot as the required GIC-ITS support is not upstream yet.
I added some of the #ifdefs back that were removed by mistake.

> > - Changed IRQ setup infrastructure to be able to program MSIs
> > for MC objects in an object-independent way.
>
> Are these two things related?
>
No.

> Why does this patch add so many new EXPORTS()s?
>
Removed new EXPORTs added as they are not needed yet.

> regards,
> dan carpenter

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