[PATCH v2 04/10] arm: zynq: Load scu baseaddress at run time

Steffen Trumtrar s.trumtrar at pengutronix.de
Wed Mar 27 06:43:35 EDT 2013


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:09:45AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> 2013/3/27 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>:
> > On Wednesday 27 March 2013, Michal Simek wrote:
> >> FYI: I have looked at some code and I saw that Rob is using scu_base_addr
> >> in highbank. And then pointing to it in cpuidle-calxeda.c.
> >
> > Yes, the point is that it works as long as only one person uses that
> > identifier, so we should either not use it at all, or have a single
> > global definition shared by all ARM platforms.
> 
> yep.
> 
> >> Moving everything to one file is probably impossible.
> >>
> >> And in connection to symbols/functions/variables. It means that all
> >> specific soc functions in mach
> >> should also use specific prefix for everything.
> >
> > That is a good rule, although for static symbols it is not a bug
> > if they don't have a prefix.
> 
> ok. Let me check all my patches and Add there zynq_ prefix everywhere.
> 

While you're at, how about getting rid of the xilinx in the names and use
just zynq_* ?

I would also suggest s/xttc/ttc/g in your timer patch. It is up to you,
but I think the x doesn't make any sense anymore.

Regards,
Steffen

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