[PATCH V2 3/3] ARM: tegra: move debug-macro.S to include/debug

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Oct 19 12:37:09 EDT 2012


On 10/18/2012 03:53 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:12:17PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> That implies we really do need to keep the two pieces of code completely
>> in sync, so a shared header is the right way to go. It also implies that
>> having duplicate mappings of the same physical address doesn't cause any
>> immediate obvious catastrophic problems.
>>
>> Ways we might avoid files in arch/arm/include/debug having to use
>> relative include paths to pick up that header are:
> 
> Why not take the opposite approach.  Treat the platform as setting up the
> addresses for the UART.  Then arrange for the debug macros to match that.

Well, wouldn't the debug macros match it by including a common header
file that defined the virtual address:-)

> Or we define a common virtual address for debug UARTs (which platforms
> would not be able to use).

That seems like good idea.

>> b) Rework debug-macro.S so that it isn't an include file, but rather a
>> regular top-level file.
> 
> No, that won't work.  It's used in two places - the kernel and the
> decompressor.  Hence why it is an include file (it's not an include
> file just for the fun of it.)

Can't the file just be compiled twice by the two different Makefiles?



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