From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:46:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/9] SOC: brcmstb: add memory API In-Reply-To: References: <1507761269-7017-1-git-send-email-jim2101024@gmail.com> <1507761269-7017-2-git-send-email-jim2101024@gmail.com> <20171017082413.GA10574@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20171018064649.GA7734@infradead.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:12:22AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Please move this into the arm arch code. > > No, this needs to work on both ARM and ARM64, hence the reason why this > is in a reasonably architecture neutral place. So there is no other shared code between the ARM and ARM64 ports for this SOC? > >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_phys_addr_to_memc); > > > >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(brcmstb_memory_memc_size); > > > > Why is this exported? > > Because the PCIE RC driver can be built as a module. Hmm, supporting PCIE RC as module sounds odd, but it seems like there are a few others like that. At least make it EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() then to document the internal nature.