[U-Boot] [PATCH 17/60] ARM: tegra: move apb_misc.h

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On 20 April 2016 at 15:56, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 04/20/2016 01:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 19 April 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> This header is only needed by code local to mach-tegra/, so move it there
>>> to avoid polluting the global include path.
>
>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra20/warmboot_avp.c
>>> b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra20/warmboot_avp.c
>>> index 616358b657be..0ae401c569b6 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra20/warmboot_avp.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra20/warmboot_avp.c
>>> @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
>>>   #include <asm/arch/flow.h>
>>>   #include <asm/arch/pinmux.h>
>>>   #include <asm/arch/tegra.h>
>>> -#include <asm/arch-tegra/apb_misc.h>
>>>   #include <asm/arch-tegra/clk_rst.h>
>>>   #include <asm/arch-tegra/pmc.h>
>>>   #include <asm/arch-tegra/warmboot.h>
>>> +#include "../apb_misc.h"
>>
>>
>> Is this really an improvement?
>
>
> Yes:-P
>
>> What's the rationale?
>
>
> As mentioned in the commit description, the content of the header is only
> used by code in arch/arm/mach-tegra/. By moving the header file out of a
> directory that's part of the include path, we ensure that code (such as
> drivers and core code) can't access the header without explicitly doing
> something unusual, which should ring alarm bells. This will help avoid
> future additions of code that touches Tegra internals rather than accessing
> functionality through standard/generic (or even custom but explicitly
> "exported") APIs.

Well if that's what you want, OK.

The ../xxx.h looks odd to me - like a temporary hack. Also if we have
a driver for SoC functionality then it will likely need access to this
stuff. But I can't see a better way to do this, and it does achieve
your goal...

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Regards,
Simon