[U-Boot] ad-hoc config error

york sun york.sun at nxp.com
Tue Sep 20 23:40:00 CEST 2016


On 09/20/2016 02:36 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:22:09PM +0000, york sun wrote:
>
>> Tom and Simon,
>>
>> After commit 371244cb19f9804711dd66e4281ff7979915fd2e, all merges with
>> new macros defined will have the compiling error. How shall we fix it?
>> Some macros can be added to Kconfig. But some are for local use, better
>> than magic numbers. Adding them to the white-list doesn't sound right.
>> What's your suggestion?
>
> Things that don't belong in Kconfig don't belong in the CONFIG namespace
> either, probably.  For example, the cache line stuff is in Kconfig and
> select'ed but for another example, various magic numbers used in the TI
> secure boot stuff (which can vary from SoC to SoC) are just not in the
> CONFIG namespace now.
>

For those can be put in Kconfig, I can convert.
Can you point me examples to use macros for magic numbers?
What about the white listed macros? Are we supposed to leave them there, 
or slowly convert them to other name space?

York


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