From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: "S, Venkatraman" <svenkatr@ti.com>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] omap: Allow testing for omap type with omap_has_feature
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:53:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C375423.1090405@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100709070422.GC24913@atomide.com>
Tony Lindgren had written, on 07/09/2010 02:04 AM, the following:
> * Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> [100708 22:31]:
>>> I think this 'lazy reviewability' comes at the cost of very
>>> abstraction the features framework is intended to provide, not to
>>> mention the question of correct selection (is this a OMAP4 specific
>>> feature or is OMAP5 expected to have it ?). and upgradation.
>>>
>>> As mentioned before, the surrounding context of the use of
>>> omap_has_feature() will provide enough clues about the cpu specific
>>> nature of a feature, if at all needed.
>> Does it really? when a new feature is added, dont we want to know if
>> it is generic feature or a omap specific feature? where is the flag?
>
> Yeah I don't know what we should do with these defines.. Kind of just
> threw the patch out there.
>
> If we already have omap specific omap_has_feature functions, we don't
> need cpu_is_omapxxxx in most cases.
>
> I suggest we only use the generic defines now, then look at it again
> when we run out of the bits to define.
ack.
--
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 9:37 [RFC 0/5] Introduce omap_has_feature Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 9:37 ` [PATCH 1/5] omap2/3: id: fix sparse warning Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 9:37 ` [PATCH 2/5] omap: Implement common omap_has_feature Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 14:52 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-09 7:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-07-09 16:53 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-08 9:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] omap: Replace omap3_has_ macros with omap_has_feature Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 14:53 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-08 9:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] omap: Remove old omap3_has_ macros Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 14:54 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-08 9:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] omap: Allow testing for omap type with omap_has_feature Tony Lindgren
2010-07-08 15:03 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-08 16:15 ` Venkatraman S
2010-07-08 16:28 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-08 19:28 ` Venkatraman S
2010-07-08 19:37 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-07-09 7:04 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-07-09 16:53 ` Nishanth Menon [this message]
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