[PATCH] pinctrl: imx: do not implicitly set pin regs to -1

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Fri Feb 6 11:40:43 PST 2015


On 2015-02-06 20:21, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hallo Stefan,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 05:30:56PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> -	memset(info->pin_regs, 0xff, sizeof(*info->pin_regs) * info->npins);
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < info->npins; i++) {
>> +		info->pin_regs[i].mux_reg = -1;
>> +		info->pin_regs[i].conf_reg = -1;
>> +	}
> looks definitely better. Just out of interest, did you check if it
> changes the generated code?

Just checked quickly, before it branched to memset. The object file is
24 bytes larger. I guess memset might be a bit faster due to optimized
memory access. But not worth for some error handling relevant
initialization code IMHO...

--
Stefan



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