Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] MIPS: move pic32.h header file from asm to platform_data

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 07:42:25AM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 05:47:54PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> > There are currently some pic32 MIPS drivers that are in tree, and are
> > only configured to be compiled on the MIPS pic32 platform. There's a
> > risk of breaking some of these drivers when migrating drivers away from
> > legacy APIs. It happened to me with a pic32 clk driver.
> > 
> > Let's go ahead and move the pic32.h from the asm to the platform_data
> > include directory in the tree. This will make it easier, and cleaner to
> > enable COMPILE_TEST for some of these pic32 drivers. To do this requires
> > updating some includes, which I do at the beginning of this series.
> > 
> > This series was compile tested on a centos-stream-10 arm64 host in two
> > different configurations:
> > 
> > - native arm64 build with COMPILE_TEST (via make allmodconfig)
> > - MIPS cross compile on arm64 with:
> >       ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-linux-gnu- make pic32mzda_defconfig
> > 
> > Note that there is a separate MIPS compile error in linux-next, and I
> > reported it at https://lore.kernel.org/all/aWVs2gVB418WiMVa@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > I included a patch at the end that shows enabling COMPILE_TEST for a
> > pic32 clk driver.
> > 
> > Merge Strategy
> > ==============
> > - Patches 1-15 can go through the MIPS tree.
> > - Patch 16 I can repost to Claudiu after patches 1-15 are in Linus's
> >   tree after the next merge window. There is a separate patch set that
> >   fixes a compiler error I unintentionally introduced via the clk tree.
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/CABx5tq+eOocJ41X-GSgkGy6S+s+Am1yCS099wqP695NtwALTmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> 
> Sorry about the duplicate message. I just wanted to reply to the series
> with MIPS in the header so this message isn't lost.
> 
> Can you back out these two patches from your tree in linux-next, and not
> send these to Linus?
> 
> clk: microchip: core: allow driver to be compiled with COMPILE_TEST
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=026d70dcfe5de1543bb8edb8e50d22dc16863e6b
> 
> clk: microchip: fix typo in reference to a config option
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=a6ab150deb4b740334721d18e02ad400a9d888f5

I've reverted both patches in mips-next.

Thomas.

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