Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] mfd: rn5t618: prepare for irq handling

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> accidently send it only to Lee, that was unintended.
> 
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:13:51 +0000
> Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> > 
> > > rn5t618 currently lacks irq handling. To prepare implementation  
> > 
> > "RN5T618"
> > "IRQ"
> > 
> > > in a rn5t618-irq.c, move main file to rn5t618-core.c  
> > 
> > Why do you *need* to call it "core"?
> > 
> Well, the pattern is that irq stuff is in a separate file
> for other mfds. And when I want to link things together to a rn5t618.[k]o
> I think that none objects cannot be called rn5t618.o and so no source
> file rn5t618.o. Am I wrong here? Of course if things can live in one file
> this thing is not needed.

Unless you have a good reason for separating out the code, having it
all in a single file is preferred.

> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mfd/Makefile                      | 2 ++
> > >  drivers/mfd/{rn5t618.c => rn5t618-core.c} | 0
> > >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >  rename drivers/mfd/{rn5t618.c => rn5t618-core.c} (100%)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Makefile b/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > index c1067ea46204..110ea700231b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > @@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_PALMAS)	+= palmas.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_VIPERBOARD)    += viperboard.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_RC5T583)	+= rc5t583.o rc5t583-irq.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_RK808)		+= rk808.o
> > > +
> > > +rn5t618-objs			:= rn5t618-core.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_RN5T618)	+= rn5t618.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_SEC_CORE)	+= sec-core.o sec-irq.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_SYSCON)	+= syscon.o
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/rn5t618.c b/drivers/mfd/rn5t618-core.c
> > > similarity index 100%
> > > rename from drivers/mfd/rn5t618.c
> > > rename to drivers/mfd/rn5t618-core.c  
> > 



-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Linaro Services Technical Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog