[PATCH v10 5/5] QE: Move QE from arch/powerpc to drivers/soc

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Sep 23 02:39:55 AEST 2015


On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 03:24 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:56 AM +0800, Wood Scott-B07421 wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 6:56 AM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475
> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org;
> > lauraa at codeaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061; benh at kernel.crashing.org; Li
> > Yang-Leo-R58472; paulus at samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/5] QE: Move QE from arch/powerpc to drivers/soc
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 03:15:21PM +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/Kconfig
> > > new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3012571
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/Kconfig
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ 
> > > + help
> > > +   The QUICC Engine (QE) is a new generation of communications
> > > +   coprocessors on Freescale embedded CPUs (akin to CPM in older
> > chips).
> > > +   Selecting this option means that you wish to build a kernel
> > > +   for a machine with a QE coprocessor.
> > > +
> > > +config UCC_SLOW
> > > + bool
> > > + default y if SERIAL_QE
> > > + help
> > > +   This option provides qe_lib support to UCC slow
> > > +   protocols: UART, BISYNC, QMC
> > > +
> > > +config UCC_FAST
> > > + bool
> > > + default y if UCC_GETH
> > > + help
> > > +   This option provides qe_lib support to UCC fast
> > > +   protocols: HDLC, Ethernet, ATM, transparent
> > 
> > What does "qe_lib" mean to the end user, or to anyone after the code is
> > moved to drivers/soc/fsl/qe?
> 
> Qe_lib has functions configuring ucc, managing muram and so on.
> It is the common functions to end user.

It's not going to be called qe_lib anymore.  s/provides qe_lib support to UCC 
/provides support for QE UCC/

-Scott



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