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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 9:50:21 PM CEST Scott Wood wrote:
> From: yangbo lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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 <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> [scottwood: update description]
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

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.

	Arnd