From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
To: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@gmail.com>, nsaenz@kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
phil@raspberrypi.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] vchiq: Patch to separate platform and cdev code
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:38:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <224a22aa-277d-0cde-13a4-f085a977819f@i2se.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1626882325.git.ojaswin98@gmail.com>
Am 21.07.21 um 18:20 schrieb Ojaswin Mujoo:
> Hello,
>
> This patchset adderesses the TODO item number 10 specified at:
>
> drivers/staging/vc04-services/interface/TODO
>
> For reference, the task is:
>
> 10) Reorganize file structure: Move char driver to it's own file and join
> both platform files
>
> The cdev is defined alongside with the platform code in vchiq_arm.c. It
> would be nice to completely decouple it from the actual core code. For
> instance to be able to use bcm2835-audio without having /dev/vchiq created.
> One could argue it's better for security reasons or general cleanliness. It
> could even be interesting to create two different kernel modules, something
> the likes of vchiq-core.ko and vchiq-dev.ko. This would also ease the
> upstreaming process.
>
> A summary of the patches is as follows:
>
> - Patch 1: Move cdev init code into a function
> - Patch 2: Shift some devlarations from vchiq_arm.c to vchiq_arm.h for
> sharing
> - Patch 3: Move vchiq cdev init code from vchiq_arm.c into vchiq_dev.c
> - Patch 4: Decouple cdev code by defining a Kconfig entry to allow
> optional compilation of it.
> - Patch 5: Merge code in vchiq_2835_arm.c to vchiq_arm.c
>
> Changes since v3 [2]:
>
> * In Patch 5, replace forward declarations of some of the functions with
> function definition
>
The whole series is:
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-24 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 16:20 [PATCH v4 0/5] vchiq: Patch to separate platform and cdev code Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] staging: vchiq: Refactor vchiq " Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] staging: vchiq: Move certain declarations to vchiq_arm.h Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: vchiq: Move vchiq char driver to its own file Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] staging: vchiq: Make creation of vchiq cdev optional Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-27 13:25 ` Greg KH
2021-07-27 16:55 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] staging: vchiq: Combine vchiq platform code into single file Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-23 11:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] vchiq: Patch to separate platform and cdev code Greg KH
2021-07-23 12:59 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-23 13:31 ` Stefan Wahren
2021-07-24 10:44 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-24 9:38 ` Stefan Wahren [this message]
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