[PATCHv3 2/2] msm: Support DEBUG_LL on MSM8660 and MSM8960

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Tue Nov 8 14:14:11 EST 2011


On 11/08/11 11:08, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Independently from this patch, I was wondering about this code:
>
>> +	.macro	senduart, rd, rx
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MSM_HAS_DEBUG_UART_HS
>> +	@ Write the 1 character to UARTDM_TF
>> +	str	\rd, [\rx, #0x70]
>> +#else
>>  	teq	\rx, #0
>>  	strne	\rd, [\rx, #0x0C]
>> +#endif
>>  	.endm
> Why testing for zero in the #else part?  The upper level code should 
> never call this macro with a null byte.
>

I was wondering the same thing, I don't know why that test for null is
there. I will dust off the old 7201a (literally) and see what I can find
out. It certainly looks unnecessary.

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