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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [v3][POWERPC] refactor dcr code
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:04:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208574266.6958.441.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40804181930s724b2e11we01943236ec0b8a7@mail.gmail.com>


> By current conventions; these should probably be static functions (but
> don't make them inline).  The compiler will do the right thing with
> them.  Functions are easier to validate by the compiler and sparse
> than #defines.

Not necessarily... yes we tend to prefer functions, but in that case
which is 100% a renaming trick, macros are fine and somewhat simpler.

There is no type difference and the macro will not prevent type checking
here.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-19  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1206401313-1625-1-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-03-28 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] [v2][POWERPC] refactor dcr code Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-03-30 22:02   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-01 20:16     ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-04 22:02     ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-04 22:10       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-18 21:49     ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-18 21:55     ` [PATCH 1/2] [v3][POWERPC] " Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-19  2:30       ` Grant Likely
2008-04-19  3:04         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-04-19 14:35       ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-21  3:56         ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-21 13:03           ` Josh Boyer
2008-05-05 17:56             ` [PATCH 0/4] [v4][POWERPC] " Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]             ` <1210010201-28436-1-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-05-05 17:56               ` [PATCH 1/4] " Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-06  0:12                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-06  3:40                 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-06  4:02                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-06 17:34                     ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-06 17:40                       ` Josh Boyer
2008-05-06 18:29                   ` [PATCH 1/4] [v5][POWERPC] " Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]               ` <1210010201-28436-2-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-05-05 17:56                 ` [PATCH 2/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Virtex: Enable dcr for MMIO and NATIVE Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-06  0:11                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-06 17:33                     ` [PATCH 2/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Virtex: Enable dcr for MMIO andNATIVE Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]                 ` <1210010201-28436-3-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-05-05 17:56                   ` [PATCH 3/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Framebuffer: remove platform device support Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]                   ` <1210010201-28436-4-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-05-05 17:56                     ` [PATCH 4/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Framebuffer: Use dcr infrastructure Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-06  4:55                       ` Grant Likely
2008-05-06  6:14                         ` David Gibson
2008-05-06 10:56                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-08  1:57                             ` David Gibson
2008-05-06 17:43                           ` [PATCH 4/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Framebuffer: Use dcrinfrastructure Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-08  1:59                             ` David Gibson
2008-05-08  4:46                               ` [PATCH 4/4] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Framebuffer: Usedcrinfrastructure Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-05-08  7:01                                 ` David Gibson
     [not found]     ` <1208555704-8978-1-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-04-18 21:55       ` [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Virtex: Enable dcr for MMIO and NATIVE Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-04-19  2:31         ` Grant Likely
     [not found] ` <1206721429-18276-1-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-03-28 16:23   ` [PATCH 2/5] " Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]   ` <1206721429-18276-2-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-03-28 16:23     ` [PATCH 3/5] [POWERPC] explicit dcr support Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-03-30 22:04       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]     ` <1206721429-18276-3-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-03-28 16:23       ` [PATCH 4/5] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Framebuffer: Use dcr infrastructure Stephen Neuendorffer
     [not found]       ` <1206721429-18276-4-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2008-03-28 16:23         ` [PATCH 5/5] [RFC][PPC] Use DCR for arch ppc, and enable MMIO and NATIVE for virtex Stephen Neuendorffer

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