Re: [PATCH 1/9] SOC: brcmstb: add memory API

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 18 2017 - 02:47:18 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:12:22AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Please move this into the arm arch code.
>
> No, this needs to work on both ARM and ARM64, hence the reason why this
> is in a reasonably architecture neutral place.

So there is no other shared code between the ARM and ARM64 ports for
this SOC?

> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_phys_addr_to_memc);
> >
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_memc_size);
> >
> > Why is this exported?
>
> Because the PCIE RC driver can be built as a module.

Hmm, supporting PCIE RC as module sounds odd, but it seems like there
are a few others like that. At least make it EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() then
to document the internal nature.