Thread (71 messages) 71 messages, 9 authors, 2021-08-05

[PATCH 01/14] x86/cpu: Move intel-family to arch-independent headers

From: Williams, Dan J <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: 2021-07-14 16:55:19
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, linux-doc, linux-hwmon, lkml, openbmc

On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 00:04 +0200, Iwona Winiarska wrote:
Baseboard management controllers (BMC) often run Linux but are usually
implemented with non-X86 processors. They can use PECI to access package
config space (PCS) registers on the host CPU and since some information,
e.g. figuring out the core count, can be obtained using different
registers on different CPU generations, they need to decode the family
and model.

Move the data from arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h into a new file
include/linux/x86/intel-family.h so that it can be used by other
architectures.
At least it would make the diffstat smaller to allow for rename
detection when the old file is deleted in the same patch:

 MAINTAINERS                                                | 1 +
 {arch/x86/include/asm => include/linux/x86}/intel-family.h | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

...one thing people have done in the past is include a conversion
script in the changelog that produced the diff. That way if a
maintainer wants to be sure to catch any new usage of the header at
the old location they just run the script.

I am not aware of x86 maintainer preference here. Either way you decide
to go you can add:

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <redacted>
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