[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/57] RFC: Move arch-specific global data into its own structure

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Mon Dec 3 15:54:14 CET 2012


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:06:30AM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> > Dear Simon Glass,
> >
> > In message <1353100842-20126-1-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
> >> The previous generic board series hit a snag in that we needed generic
> >> code to access some of the architecture-specific fields in global_data.
[snip]
> > - The change makes the code less readable.  Reading "gd->arch."
> >   instead of plain "gd->" is no improvements, but rather vice versa.
> >   If we really go this way, this should be improved.
> 
> Yes it would be nice. Are you suggesting some sort of macro, or
> something else?

Wolfgang?  "global data, architecture specific goo, ..." reads fine and
helpful to me, honestly.

-- 
Tom
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