[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] Universal PHY Infrastructure

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Fri Apr 8 13:44:35 CEST 2011


Hi,

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Andy Fleming wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>>>> This second version cleans up all checkpatch errors that I reasonably could,
>>>> and addresses most of the comments from the first round of reviews.
>>>
>>>  WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
>>> Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
>>>  #1299: FILE: drivers/net/tsec.c:1740:
>>>  +static int tsec_send(struct eth_device *dev, volatile void *packet, int length)
>>>
>>> Ah I see.  This is needed because include/net.h prescribes this as the
>>> interface.  Oh well, we should clean this up at some later point, so
>>> it's ok from my perspective to ignore this and at least stay consistent.
>>>
>>>  WARNING: do not add new typedefs
>>>  #4271: FILE: include/phy.h:389:
>>>  +typedef enum {
>>>
>>> I know that we have lots of typedefs, but we should not add new ones.
>>> Actually not using this typedef for an enum-type would make the sources
>>> easier for me to read as I don't have to do this extra lookup step.
>>
>> True, but this typedef is in Linux the same way. It seemed sensible to keep them the same
>
> agreed.  fwiw :p.

I'm also fine with that.

Cheers
  Detlev

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