[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: Add board_early_init_f() to init_sequence

[Stefan Roese]

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> > +int __board_early_init_f(void)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Nothing to do in this dummy implementation
> > +	 */
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +int board_early_init_f(void) __attribute__((weak,
> > alias("__board_early_init_f"))); +
> >  /*
> >   * The Malloc area is immediately below the monitor copy in DRAM
> >   */
> > @@ -167,6 +176,7 @@ static int init_baudrate (void)
> >  typedef int (init_fnc_t) (void);
> >
> >  init_fnc_t *init_sequence[] = {
> > +	board_early_init_f,
> >  	timer_init,
> >  	env_init,		/* initialize environment */
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_INCA_IP
>
> This is ok.  I don't know why people prefers alias, though :-)

Just because we don't need the ugly #ifdef's by using weak aliases. It has 
some drawbacks of course but in general the resulting source code 
looks "cleaner".

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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