RE: [patch v8 1/3] platform/x86: move Mellanox hardware platform hotplug driver to platform/mellanox

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:43 AM
> To: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [patch v8 1/3] platform/x86: move Mellanox hardware platform
> hotplug driver to platform/mellanox
> 
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:58:41AM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> > It moves drivers/platform/x86/mlxcpld-hotplug.c to
> > drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c and
> > include/linux/platform_data/mlxcpld-hotplug.h to
> > include/linux/platform_data/mlxreg.h for making hotplug driver usable
> > for the different machine architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v7->v8:
> > v6->v7:
> >  Fixes added by Vadim:
> >  - remove dependency on X86_64 to allow also X86 architecture;
> > v5->v6:
> >  Fixes added by Vadim:
> >  - add SPD license record to Kconfig and Makefile;
> > v4->v5:
> >  Comments pointed out by Andy:
> >  - arrange MAINTAINERS in correct alphabetic order;
> > v3->v4:
> >  Comments pointed out by Darren:
> >  - Refactor the patches to provide the changes in patchset in incremental
> >    order;
> >  - Modify MAINTAINERS records;
> >  - Use git-mv for the replaced files;
> >   Commnets pointed out by Colin:
> >  - Make structures mlxplat_dev and mlxplat_hotplug static;
> > ---
> 
> ...
> 
> >  config MLX_PLATFORM
> >  	tristate "Mellanox Technologies platform support"
> > -	depends on X86_64
> 
> This seems like it would be more appropriately applied to 2/3 as this patch is
> supposed to be just about the renaming of the files, methods, and defines from
> CPLD to reg, and the creation of the mellanox platform.
> 
> Any reason this needs to be in this patch?
> 

Hi Darren,
Thank you very much for reviews.

I removed X86_64 dependency in this patch to allow the driver also for
32 bit architecture.

> --
> Darren Hart
> VMware Open Source Technology Center




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