Re: [PATCH] omap2+: add drm device

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Rob Clark <rob@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Rob Clark <rob@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Rob Clark <rob.clark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> +/* files from staging that contain platform data structure definitions */
>>>>> +#include "../../../drivers/staging/omapdrm/omap_priv.h"
>>>>> +#include "../../../drivers/staging/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.h"
>>>>
>>>> btw, I'm not a huge fan of doing #includes this way, so if someone has
>>>> a better suggestion (given that staging drivers should not have
>>>> headers outside of drivers/staging) please let me know
>>>
>>> Move those structs to /arch/arm/plat-omap/drm.h?
>>
>> Can I do that?  Maybe it depends of if you consider those structs as
>> part of the driver, or part of the platform?
>
> Why not? The platform is using them in arch/arm/plat-omap/drm.c.
>
>> I guess that looks like how it was handled for dspbridge, so maybe
>> that means it is a suitable precedent..
>
> Indeed, the way I see it is this: imagine there's another driver in
> staging (or maybe even out of tree), that requires this data. It would
> simply include plat-omap/drm.h to fill this. OK, this is pretty
> far-fetched, but demonstrates the point: platform data should be
> completely independent of the drivers.

yeah, makes sense.. I'm about to send v2 of this patch.

BR,
-R

> Cheers.
>
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