Re: [PATCH v1 17/19] ARM: tegra: dt-setup: convert TrustZone remove into config

Svyatoslav Ryhel clamor95 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 15:43:57 CEST 2023



24 серпня 2023 р. 16:33:48 GMT+03:00, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> написав(-ла):
>On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 02:47:11PM +0300, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 23 серпня 2023 р. 14:17:37 GMT+03:00, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> написав(-ла):
>> >On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 02:22:15PM +0300, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
>> >> Remove of TrustZone nodes is required by many product devices
>> >> which require repetable calls of same function from device board.
>> >> To simplify this, TZ remove is converted into Kconfig option.
>> >> 
>> >> Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Ryhel <clamor95 at gmail.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig    | 14 ++++++++++++++
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/dt-setup.c |  7 +++++++
>> >>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>> >
>> >I kind of preferred the original because it's very explicit. There's
>> >also no big advantage in consolidating this because the code is unlikely
>> >to ever require changing (the libfdt API is quite stable and these nodes
>> >are all hard-coded anyway). This new variant put non-generic code (it
>> >requires a Kconfig option after all) into a generic place, so it seems a
>> >bit backwards.
>> 
>> So you say that I have to add same function to boards over and over
>> for all devices I plan to mainline? Unneeded code duplication in
>> action.
>
>There's a balance to be struck between duplication and readability. If
>you insert this board-specific code into a generic code path, that
>generic code path becomes difficult to read given the extra #ifdef
>guards etc. If you're really worried about duplicating code you can move
>the two libfdt calls into a separate function and call that function
>from each of the boards that need it.

I propose for now to drop this patches and when time comes to Simon Glass suggestion about events just create a call for this or handle it in some way.

>Thierry


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