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From: krzk@kernel.org (Krzysztof Kozlowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH-RFT 2/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split Exynos drivers per ARMv7 and ARMv8
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 19:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170520171442.scgss76fbawsmhjd@kozik-lap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbfNu0SHPsPoRzAj2by3HGBcGwD2jLKr1sUHEA2scnyQw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 07:12:13PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Exynos pinctrl drivers contain pretty big per-SoC data structures.  The
> > pinctrl-exynos object file contained code and data for both ARMv7 and
> > ARMv8 SoCs thus it grew big.  There will not be a shared image between
> > ARMv7 and ARMv8 so there is no need to combine all of this into one
> > driver.
> >
> > Splitting the data allows to make it more granular (e.g. code related to
> > ARMv8 Exynos is self-contained), slightly speed up the compilation and
> > reduce the effective size of compiled kernel.
> >
> > The common data structures and functions reside still in existing
> > pinctrl-exynos.c.  Only the SoC-specific parts were moved out to new
> > files.  Except marking few functions non-static and adding them to
> > header, there were no functional changes in the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> I guess I will get this from you with a pull request?

Yes, I'll send it to you with pull request.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-20 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-16 20:06 [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split per ARMv7/v8 arch Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-05-16 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: samsung: Add include guard to local header Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-05-16 20:06 ` [PATCH-RFT 2/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split Exynos drivers per ARMv7 and ARMv8 Krzysztof Kozlowski
     [not found]   ` <98c7c565-ba52-406b-2c9c-87ade2847880@samsung.com>
2017-05-17 15:48     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-05-20 17:12   ` Linus Walleij
2017-05-20 17:14     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2017-05-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split per ARMv7/v8 arch Alim Akhtar

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