Re: [RFC PATCH 09/35] drivers/gpio changes for SMBIOS and SystemFirmware

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 17:32:16 EST




On 05/31/2011 03:17 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> Hi Prarit
>
> I could use some background on why the mod_devicetable.h include is
> being removed from basic_mmio_gpio (need a commit description).

Grant, this was part of a cleanup of the dmi* code. Currently DMI*
(which have now been changed to SYSFW*) definitions are in
mod_devicetable.h. AFAICT, mod_devicetable.h is not needed in the gpio
file.

> Also,
> any reason why this change isn't squashed in the patch that
> necessitates it?
>

Purely organization of the patchset -- the SYSFW & SMBIOS code touches
close to 180 different files. I decided that a directory-by-directory
breakout of the drivers/* patches was the best way to go.

P.

> g.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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