[PATCH V2 2/2] ARM: SAMSUNG: Cleanup resources by using macro

Sylwester Nawrocki s.nawrocki at samsung.com
Mon Oct 3 10:20:34 EDT 2011


On 10/03/2011 03:13 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> On 10/03/11 12:53, Kyungmin Park wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Kukjin Kim<kgene.kim at samsung.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> +#define SAMSUNG_RES_MEM(soc, ip, sz)   DEFINE_RES_MEM(soc##_PA_##ip, sz)
>>> +#define SAMSUNG_RES_IRQ(ip)            DEFINE_RES_IRQ(IRQ_##ip)
>>> +
>>> +#define SAMSUNG_RES_MEM_NAMED(soc, ip, sz, name)       \
>>> +                               DEFINE_RES_MEM_NAMED(soc##_PA_##ip, sz, name)
>>> +#define SAMSUNG_RES_IRQ_NAMED(ip, name)                        \
>>> +                               DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED(IRQ_##ip, name)
>>> +#define SAMSUNG_RES_DMA_NAMED(ch, name)                        \
>>> +                               DEFINE_RES_DMA_NAMED(DMACH_##ch, name)
>>
>> It's good for readability. but do you think that it's hard to find out
>> defined macros are used at real place?
>> e.g., Now I want to find out the S3C_PA_USB_HSOTG. it's difficult if
>> you use the SAMSUNG_RES_* series macro.
>> but if you use the DEFINED_RES_* series directly. it's easy to find
>> out at real codes.
>>
> Well, I don't think so because the XXX_PA_XXX addresses are defined in each
> mach/map.h and they are usually used in here so it's not hard to find it.

Some minor disadvantage is that tagging tools like e.g. gtags don't handle
these things properly. But I don't think it's really important.

> 
> And now the 'S3C', 'S5P' and 'SAMSUNG' are used in the 'soc' part. I'm
> preparing to consolidate the name and to remove duplicated resources.

Do you also have any specific plans for supporting single image build for
multiple SoC's while working on this ?


Thanks,
-- 
Sylwester



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