From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:09:43 -0600
Subject: [PATCH v4 10/19] irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h
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On 01/03/2013 03:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>
>> Now that we have GIC moved to drivers/irqchip and all GIC DT init for
>> platforms using irqchip_init, move gic.h and update the remaining
>> includes.
> 
> Can you elaborate on why this is done? Does any other code rely on the
> header file being globally visible, or is there a more general reason
> to move header files out of asm/ ?

KVM needs the register definitions for GIC distributor emulation.
Platform SMP code still needs gic_secondary_init. Non-DT platform init
still needs gic_init. And Russell did not like it being left in arch/arm
with the rest moved out.

Rob