Re: [PATCH v3 26/36] soc: fsl: move cpm.h from powerpc/include/asm to include/soc/fsl

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 17:18 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> Le 01/11/2019 Ã 13:42, Rasmus Villemoes a Ãcrit :
> > Some drivers, e.g. ucc_uart, need definitions from cpm.h. In order to
> > allow building those drivers for non-ppc based SOCs, move the header
> > to include/soc/fsl. For now, leave a trivial wrapper at the old
> > location so drivers can be updated one by one.
> 
> I'm not sure that's the correct way to go.
> 
> As far as I know, CPM is specific to powerpc (or maybe common to some 
> motorola 68000). So only powerpc specific drivers should need it.
> 
> If cpm.h includes items that are needed for QE, those items should go in 
> another .h
> 
> Of course, it doesn't mean we can't move cpm.h in include/soc/fsl, but 
> anyway only platforms having CPM1 or CPM2 should include it.

QE is basically CPM3 so it's not surprising that cpm.h would be needed.  I
wonder how much less unnecessary code duplication there would have been if
marketing hadn't decided to change the name.

-Scott