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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Savoy, Pavan" <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Cc: "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] include:linux: make ti_wilink_st like the rest
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:59:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100916205929.GA12515@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E73940468914048@dbde02.ent.ti.com>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:48:53AM +0530, Savoy, Pavan wrote:
> > Also, why not just use 'u8' and friends instead?  That's the "proper"
> > kernel types to be using, not the uint8_t mess that is not correct
> > kernel types.
> 
> Yes a mistake here too.
> This should have been in the patch where I plan to combine all the headers into 1 header and have it in include/linux/
> [the headers like st_core.h, st_kim.h, st_ll.h, bt_drv.h and fm and GPs headers]
> 
> Yes, and the Bluetooth driver to go into drivers/Bluetooth/ and ST
> driver (st_core.c/st_kim.c and st_ll.c) to go into drivers/char/ And
> the upcoming FM V4L2 to go into the drivers/media/radio/
> 
> Does this sound fine?

Yes.

> > > @@ -386,6 +392,7 @@ void st_ll_wakeup(struct st_data_s *);
> > >
> > >  /**
> > >   * structures and declarations used by the st_core for FM packets
> > > + * and GPS packets
> > >   */
> > >  struct fm_event_hdr {
> > >  	unsigned char plen;
> > 
> > Oh, is it?  That should go somewhere else.
> 
> Plan is to have just 1 large header to be included by all protocol drivers (BT, FM and GPS)...
> Is it a bad idea?

No, as long as all drivers need it.

> > >  #endif /* ST_H */
> > 
> > I don't think this file is called "ST_H" here anymore.
> 
> Yes, need your input here. This file will be made use by the rest of
> the protocol drivers I plan to push patches for.
> So does ti_wilink_st.h sound fine? And in include/linux? So that rest
> of the drivers can be in their individual directories.

Yes, that name is fine, but it needs to be the same as the #ifdef
guard as well.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 19:58 [PATCH] drivers:staging:ti-st: patches pavan_savoy
2010-09-10 19:58 ` [PATCH] drivers:staging:ti-st: fix kim platform device id pavan_savoy
2010-09-10 19:58   ` [RFC 1/3] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv headers to ti_wilink_st pavan_savoy
2010-09-10 19:58     ` [RFC 2/3] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv ti_wilink_st to include/ pavan_savoy
2010-09-10 19:58       ` [RFC 3/3] include:linux: make ti_wilink_st like the rest pavan_savoy
2010-09-16 20:00         ` Greg KH
2010-09-16 20:18           ` Savoy, Pavan
2010-09-16 20:59             ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-09-16 21:24               ` Savoy, Pavan
2010-09-16 19:57       ` [RFC 2/3] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv ti_wilink_st to include/ Greg KH
2010-09-16 19:56     ` [RFC 1/3] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv headers to ti_wilink_st Greg KH
2010-09-13 22:01   ` [PATCH] drivers:staging:ti-st: fix kim platform device id Savoy, Pavan
2010-09-15 21:38   ` Savoy, Pavan

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