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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] remoteproc: qcom: Move minidump specific data to
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On 5/4/2023 5:08 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 03/05/2023 19:02, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>> Move minidump specific data types and macros to a separate internal
>> header(qcom_minidump.h) so that it can be shared among different
>> Qualcomm drivers.
> 
> No, this is not internal header. You moved it to global header.
> 
> There is no reason driver internals should be exposed to other unrelated
> subsystems.
> 
>>
>> There is no change in functional behavior after this.
> 
> It is. You made all these internal symbols available to others.
> 
>>
> 
> This comes without justification why other drivers needs to access
> private and internal data. It does not look correct design. NAK.

Thanks for catching outdated commit text, will fix the commit with
more descriptive reasoning.

It has to be global so that co-processor minidump and apss minidump can
share data structure and they are lying in different directory.

-Mukesh

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>