[RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Add generic macros for declaring various CPU structs

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jun 16 06:15:36 EDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:12:41AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> >  * For consistency, I've renamed the arch/CPU name string labels.
> >    If that is seen as unnecessary churn, it can be undone.
> 
> I don't see the win here, so let's leave the names like they are to avoid
> unnecessary conflicts with other patches dealing with proc_info structs.

One of the issues is that there are proc-* files which use the same
strings for several entries, for example, proc-xscale.S.

In general, the ELF name and arch name should be the same across all,
just the CPU name should differ.



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