Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756455AbaJXMUE (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:20:04 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:39224 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756090AbaJXMUC (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:20:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:19:58 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Gregory CLEMENT Cc: Jason Cooper , Andrew Lunn , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Ezequiel Garcia , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Lior Amsalem , Tawfik Bayouk , Nadav Haklai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: mvebu: Move SCU power up in a function Message-ID: <20141024141958.319af5d3@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: <544A41E5.2090802@free-electrons.com> References: <1414088070-12510-1-git-send-email-gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> <1414088070-12510-3-git-send-email-gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> <20141024140551.0890f204@free-electrons.com> <544A41E5.2090802@free-electrons.com> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Gregory CLEMENT, On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:11:17 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > > Since this function is not static, I think it might be a good idea to > > use a prefix that makes it more specific to the platform in order to > > not pollute the global namespace. Maybe something like > > 'armada_38x_scu_power_up', or something like that. > > Yes given the fact that this function is declared in the mach-mveu folder > it is sensible to use a more specific name. However the function itself > is not specific at all to an SoC. This function could be used for any Cortex A9 > using the SCU. Indeed, but as you say, it's right now defined in the mvebu specific code, so we shouldn't pollute the global namespace. Note that there is already a scu_power_mode() that does the same thing, but implemented in C, so I'm not sure you can call it at search an early point. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/