[PATCH v12 4/6] QE/CPM: move muram management functions to qe_common

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Oct 27 15:48:09 AEDT 2015


On Sun, 2015-10-25 at 21:42 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 04:56 AM, Wood Scott-B07421 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 4:56 AM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 <qiang.zhao at freescale.com>
> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org;
> > lauraa at codeaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061 <X.Xie at freescale.com>;
> > benh at kernel.crashing.org; Li Yang-Leo-R58472 <LeoLi at freescale.com>;
> > paulus at samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 4/6] QE/CPM: move muram management functions to
> > qe_common
> > 
> > On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 02:45 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 11:10 AM, Wood Scott-B07421
> > > <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 11:10 AM
> > > > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 <qiang.zhao at freescale.com>
> > > > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org;
> > > > lauraa at codeaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061 <X.Xie at freescale.com>;
> > > > benh at kernel.crashing.org; Li Yang-Leo-R58472 <LeoLi at freescale.com>;
> > > > paulus at samba.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 4/6] QE/CPM: move muram management
> > functions
> > > > to qe_common
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 15:16 +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote:
> > > > > QE and CPM have the same muram, they use the same management
> > > > > functions. Now QE support both ARM and PowerPC, it is necessary to
> > > > > move QE to "driver/soc", so move the muram management functions
> > > > > from cpm_common to qe_common for preparing to move QE code to
> > "driver/soc"
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <qiang.zhao at freescale.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Changes for v2:
> > > > >       - no changes
> > > > > Changes for v3:
> > > > >       - no changes
> > > > > Changes for v4:
> > > > >       - no changes
> > > > > Changes for v5:
> > > > >       - no changes
> > > > > Changes for v6:
> > > > >       - using genalloc instead rheap to manage QE MURAM
> > > > >       - remove qe_reset from platform file, using
> > > > >       - subsys_initcall to call qe_init function.
> > > > > Changes for v7:
> > > > >       - move this patch from 3/3 to 2/3
> > > > >       - convert cpm with genalloc
> > > > >       - check for gen_pool allocation failure Changes for v8:
> > > > >       - rebase
> > > > >       - move BD_SC_* macro instead of copy Changes for v9:
> > > > >       - doesn't modify CPM, add a new patch to modify.
> > > > >       - rebase
> > > > > Changes for v10:
> > > > >       - rebase
> > > > > Changes for v11:
> > > > >       - remove renaming
> > > > >       - delete removing qe_reset and delete adding qe_init.
> > > > > Changes for v12:
> > > > >       - SPI_FSL_CPM depends on QE-MURAM, select QUICC_ENGINE for it.
> > > > 
> > > > Why is the SPI change part of this patch?  Why is it even part of
> > > > this patchset, rather than an independent patch sent to the SPI list
> > > > and maintainer?  If it's tied to other changes you're making,
> > > > explain that.  As is, there is zero mention of the SPI change in the
> > > > part of the e-mail that will become the git changelog.
> > > > 
> > > This SPI_FSL_CPM is cpm-spi, it is part of CPM.
> > 
> > So then why are you selecting QUICC_ENGINE?  And again, what does it have
> > to do with this patch?
> 
> Cpm-spi is dependent on qe_muram, if not select it, Cpm-spi will failed to 
> build.

Why QUICC_ENGINE and not CPM?

-Scott



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