Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:47:37 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [RFC] ARM: treewide: manually change more
	mach-*/*.h includes
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 05:26:10PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > In any case, what we should be doing here as well is moving the headers
> > > included by drivers for platform data out of the arch/arm/mach/ subtrees
> > > and into include/linux/platform_data.  That will substantially reduce the
> > > amount of mach/ headers to deal with.
> > 
> > I've just looked at the {mach,plat}/*.h files that get included in ARM
> > specific drivers. Out of the 342 header files that get used in this way,
> > I found 93 that are practically just platform data, and a few that
> > are platform_data mixed with something else.
> > 
> > How about I move all the pure platform data definition files now and
> > rebase the other patches on top of that. Here is a list of suggested
> > file names in include/linux/platform_data/:
> 
> I've just scripted this and am running my build testsuite over it now.
> 
> Please let me know what you think about it.

This certainly looks like a step in the right direction, thanks for doing
this.
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