[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] spi: altera: Use struct-based register access

[Jagan Teki]

On 20 October 2014 20:40, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> On Monday, October 20, 2014 at 04:53:15 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > -#define ALTERA_SPI_RXDATA      0
>> > -#define ALTERA_SPI_TXDATA      4
>> > -#define ALTERA_SPI_STATUS      8
>> > -#define ALTERA_SPI_CONTROL     12
>> > -#define ALTERA_SPI_SLAVE_SEL   20
>> > +struct altera_spi_regs {
>> > +       u32     rxdata;
>> > +       u32     txdata;
>> > +       u32     status;
>> > +       u32     control;
>> > +       u32     _reserved;
>> > +       u32     slave_sel;
>> > +};
>>
>> Can you place this structure definition below of all macro defines, i
>> don't think the
>> next level patches does that, does they?
>
> Does it make sense to you, to first define the bits in registers and then
> the register layout ? It does not make sense to me, so I would prefer to
> keep it like it is.

You're correct the way you replaced, usually the driver code will go like this

-- >includes

--> macros definitions

--> global or structure definitions

--> driver function calls.

We follow this [1] to make the driver more readable.

[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/265683/

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.