Re: [PATCH] riscv: move sifive_l2_cache.c to drivers/soc

[Paul Walmsley]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:09:04AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > The sifive_l2_cache.c is in no way related to RISC-V architecture
> > > memory management.  It is a little stub driver working around the fact
> > > that the EDAC maintainers prefer their drivers to be structured in a
> > > certain way
> > 
> > That changed recently so I guess we can do the per-IP block driver after
> > all, if people would still prefer it.
> 
> That would seem like the best idea.  But I don't really know this code
> well enough myself, and I really need to get this code out of the
> forced on RISC-V codebase as some SOCs I'm working with simply don't
> have the memory for it..

If that's your primary concern, then in the short term, how about just 
sending a single-line patch to the arch/riscv/mm Makefile to skip building 
it if !CONFIG_SOC_SIFIVE?  Assuming, that is, you won't be enabling EDAC 
support for those low-end SoCs.  Then you won't need to get the ack 
from the EDAC folks in the short term.  

Then a patch to make the SiFive platform EDAC driver build contingent on 
CONFIG_SOC_SIFIVE could be sent separately.


- Paul