Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] remoteproc: qcom: Move minidump specific data to qcom_minidump.h

From: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] remoteproc: qcom: Move minidump specific data to qcom_minidump.h
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 17:56:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33ea7c3b-4317-5aff-5e6a-af6e093d45a0@quicinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <659a9637-f82c-054b-99a8-dc25416c8e13@linaro.org>

On 5/4/2023 5:33 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 04/05/2023 13:58, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/4/2023 5:08 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 03/05/2023 19:02, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>>> Move minidump specific data types and macros to a separate internal
>>>> header(qcom_minidump.h) so that it can be shared among different
>>>> Qualcomm drivers.
>>>
>>> No, this is not internal header. You moved it to global header.
>>>
>>> There is no reason driver internals should be exposed to other unrelated
>>> subsystems.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is no change in functional behavior after this.
>>>
>>> It is. You made all these internal symbols available to others.
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This comes without justification why other drivers needs to access
>>> private and internal data. It does not look correct design. NAK.
>>
>> Thanks for catching outdated commit text, will fix the commit with
>> more descriptive reasoning.
>>
>> It has to be global so that co-processor minidump and apss minidump can
>> share data structure and they are lying in different directory.
>>
> 
> Then you should not share all the internals of memory layout but only
> few pieces necessary to talk with minidump driver. The minidump driver
> should organize everything how it wants.

These are core data structure which is shared with boot firmware and the
one's are moved here all are required by minidump driver .

If you follow here[1], i raised by concern to make this particular one's
as private and later to avoid confusion went with single header.
But if others agree, I will keep the one that get shared with minidump
as separate one or if relative path of headers are allowed that can make
it private between these drivers(which i don't think, will be allowed or
recommended).

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3df1ec27-7e4d-1f84-ff20-94e8ea91c86f@quicinc.com/

-- Mukesh
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 