[U-Boot] [PATCH 06/14] powerpc: Remove unneccessary #ifdefs in reginfo

Christophe LEROY christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Thu Jul 13 13:15:02 UTC 2017



Le 12/07/2017 à 21:56, Tom Rini a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Christophe,
>>
>> In message <194b25e4-81fc-52cf-aeef-61ce6f4679a7 at c-s.fr> you wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh ? Ok. I thought it would be a possible name because for instance in
>>> the Linux Kernel, the watchdog driver is named that way and used also
>>> for the 8xx and so was also the SPI driver before its name was change to
>>> fsl_spi.
>>
>> There are always bad examples ;-)
>>
>>> Isn't the 8xx an 81xx indeed ?
>>
>> I have never seen this naming used; google does not know about it
>> either.
>>
>>> Any suggestion for a good name ? Would fsl_reginfo() be a good name ?
>>
>> FSL does not even exist any more...
>>
>>
>> Soory, I was never good in naming things...
> 
> FSL doesn't exist, and I'm terrible at naming things as well, but I
> think fsl_reginfo makes enough namespace sense, we have a lot of fsl_xxx
> in arch/powerpc and qcom_ might start confusing folks more than helping
> :)
> 


Finally I called in print_reginfo() as it has indeed no dependency with 
any target type or arch. Should someone want to implement it for another 
arch like an ARM CPU, he could do by just defining print_reginfo() and 
maybe moving the declaration from asm/ppc.h to a more generic place.

Christophe


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