From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K Poulose) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:36:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Make ID reg accessor naming less counterintuitive In-Reply-To: <1490282079-2724-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> References: <1490282079-2724-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 23/03/17 15:14, Dave Martin wrote: > read_system_reg() can readily be confused with read_sysreg(), > whereas these are really quite different in their meaning. > > This patches attempts to reduce the ambiguity be reserving "sysreg" > for the actual system register accessors. > > read_system_reg() is instead renamed to read_sanitised_ftr_reg(), > to make it more obvious that the Linux-defined sanitised feature > register cache is being accessed here, not the underlying > architectural system registers. > > cpufeature.c's internal __raw_read_system_reg() function is renamed > in line with its actual purpose: a form of read_sysreg() that > indexes on (non-compiletime-constant) encoding rather than symbolic > register name. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin > Thanks for clean up ! Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose