[PATCH 3/3] ARM: entry: Fix Thumb-2 undef handling for multi-CPU kernels

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Tue Aug 16 12:05:38 EDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Tixy wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 15:14 +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
>> [...]
>> > +#ifdef NEED_CPU_ARCHITECTURE
>> > +   .align  2
>> > +.LCcpu_architecture:
>> > +   .word   __cpu_architecture
>> > +#endif
>>
>> What's the convention about the prefix '.LC' as opposed to just '.L'?
>
> The .Lfoo format is more widely used than .LCfoo in the tree.

...but .LCfoo is more widely used in entry-armv.S, for exactly the
same kind of thing.

I thought it best to blend in...  anyway, apart from the magic prefix
'.L', it's just a name.

Any concerns about this, or can we leave it as-is?

Cheers
---Dave



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