[U-Boot] [PATCH V4 01/11] imximage: mx53 needs transfer length a multiple of 512

Troy Kisky troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com
Wed Nov 28 19:18:43 CET 2012


On 11/28/2012 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Troy Kisky,
>
> In message <1354066303-29762-2-git-send-email-troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com> you wrote:
>> The mx53 ROM will truncate the length at a multiple of 512.
>> Transferring too much is not a problem, so round up.
> What about other SoCs using the same code?
>
>> +#define ALIGN(a, b)	(((a) + (b) - 1) & ~((b) - 1))
> NAK. This macro is mis-named; it has nothing to do with alignment -
> you write yourself: "round up".
>
>
> And you don't have to re-invent the wheel.  Please use the existing
> macros for this purpose.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>

Oddly enough, I originally called it ROUND_UP. But then I saw these lines
in include/common.h

#define ALIGN(x,a)              __ALIGN_MASK((x),(typeof(x))(a)-1)
#define __ALIGN_MASK(x,mask)    (((x)+(mask))&~(mask))

So, I deleted my definition of ROUND_UP and used ALIGN. But imximage.c
did not automatically include common.h. Instead of trying to include
common.h and all the files it pulled in, I added the ALIGN definition.

Troy



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