accessing vfpinstr macros from outside vfp directory

Neil Leeder nleeder at codeaurora.org
Mon Apr 4 10:16:38 EDT 2011


Will and Bryan,

On 4/3/2011 8:24 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 22:54 +0100, Bryan Huntsman wrote:
>> On 04/01/11 10:27, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> Neil,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 22:04 +0100, Neil Leeder wrote:
>>>> Any opinions on what would be the best thing to do here? Choices
>> appear to be:
>>>>
>>>> 1) allow the relative include path of ../vfp/vfpinstr.h
>>>> 2) move the definitions of fmrx, fmxr from vfp/vfpinstr.h to
>> include/asm/vfp.h
>>>> 3) move vfp/vfpinstr.h to include/asm
>>>> 4) other...?
>>>>
>>>> If it helps, I can create a patch for whichever is considered the
>> preferred solution.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I personally don't find option (1) that offensive - Bryan seemed to
>>> differ though so perhaps option (2) would keep him happy?
>>>
>>> I don't think option (3) is sensible given that the majority of the
>>> header file is private to /vfp.
>>>
>>> Will
>>
>> I raised it as a question.  If that's the only sane thing to do here,
>> then do it.  Since no one else seems to have chimed in on (2) or (3),
>> I'm fine with the patch as-is.
>
> Ok, great. Let's leave it like it is for the time-being and if other
> people start using things from the vfp headers then we should consider
> refactoring some of that code (currently I think it's restricted to this
> patch series and some files under vfp/).

Sounds good to me - thank you both for the comments.

Neil

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