[GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri Apr 1 07:32:35 EDT 2011
On Thursday 31 March 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> Right, but the problem starts in way simpler areas like irq chips and
> gpio stuff, where lots of the IP cores are similar and trivial enough
> to be shared across many SoC families.
Yes, I'm sure that there are more obvious examples than the ones I've
given, those were just the ones that I had noticed myself.
> Even the OMAP "consolidated" code is silly:
>
> But the code above has 6 cases in the switch because nobody abstracted
> it out consequently. Not to talk about the ifdef mess.
Nice illustration.
Arnd
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