[PATCH 5/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Share the list of supported chip type names again

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 09:55 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Move the list of chip type names to spi-nor.h.  To avoid putting all
> > the chip type information there, we define this list as a macro
> > SPI_NOR_ENUM_TYPES() that invokes another macro SPI_NOR_ENUM_TYPE()
> > that must be defined to expand each name to whatever form it's needed.
> >
> > In spi-nor.c, use it to define enumerators, then use the enumerators
> > as indices when defining spi_nor_info so that we cannot accidentally
> > use a name that's not on the list.
> >
> > This is somewhat complicated by the fact that some names include
> > hyphens.  SPI_NOR_ENUM_TYPE() therefore takes separate string and C
> > identifier parameters.
> 
> Thanks for doing this!
> 
> However, the table generation still looks overly complicated to me, with
> too much duplication which needs to be kept in sync.

It does need to be kept in sync, but the compiler will check that.

[...]
> > --- a/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> > @@ -198,4 +198,76 @@ struct spi_nor {
> >   */
> >  int spi_nor_scan(struct spi_nor *nor, const char *name, enum read_mode mode);
> >
> > +#define __SPI_NOR_ENUM_TYPES(c_id, str_and_c_id)                         \
> > +       c_id(at25fs010)         c_id(at25fs040)         c_id(at25df041a)  \
> > +       c_id(at25df321a)        c_id(at25df641)         c_id(at26f004)    \
> 
> Can't you just have the IDs in a header file only, and let the header file
> generate either a struct flash_info or a struct spi_device_id table, using
> a macro defined by the file that includes it?

How would we match up the rest of the struct flash_info to the name?

> Cfr. include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h and its use of __SYSCALL()?
> 
> Or am I missing something (e.g. this is impossible due to the hyphens in the
> names?).

Well the hyphens are only a problem because we want C identifiers.  But
we only need C identifiers so we can enforce that each struct flash_info
matches a name on the list.  If you can find a way to match them up
without having to define enumerators, that would of course be
preferable.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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