[PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: at91/pm_slowclock: function slow_clock() accepts parameters

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 13:18 Wed 22 Feb     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > Btw I'm looking on a way to switch the assembly funciton to C but I didn,t find a
> > good way to calculate the function size except by touching at the linker
> > script. Which I don;t want to do.
> 
> Forget doing it in C.  C is too complicated, because either you have to
> keep its relocations and fix them up, or you have to compile and link it
> to run at a specific location and then copy it to that location.  You
> also have literal pools to think about.
> 
> Assembly is much better controlled and you can write it so that you don't
> end up with any of that stuff.  You have absolute control over the code
> and associated data.
ok

Best Regards,
J.