From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Cleanups for physmap_of.c (v2)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:33:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920073308.6b5deefd@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070920012225.GG14404@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:25 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> This patch includes a whole batch of smallish cleanups for
> drivers/mtd/physmap_of.c.
>
> - A bunch of uneeded #includes are removed
> - We switch to the modern linux/of.h etc. in place of
> asm/prom.h
> - Use some helper macros to avoid some ugly inline #ifdefs
> - A few lines of unreachable code are removed
> - A number of indentation / line-wrapping fixes
> - More consistent use of kernel idioms such as if (!p) instead
> of if (p == NULL)
> - Clarify some printk()s and other informative strings.
> - parse_obsolete_partitions() now returns 0 if no partition
> information is found, instead of returning -ENOENT which the caller
> had to handle specially.
> - (the big one) Despite the name, this driver really has
> nothing to do with drivers/mtd/physmap.c. The fact that the flash
> chips must be physically direct mapped is a constrant, but doesn't
> really say anything about the actual purpose of this driver, which is
> to instantiate MTD devices based on information from the device tree.
> Therefore the physmap name is replaced everywhere within the file with
> "of_flash". The file itself and the Kconfig option is not renamed for
> now (so that the diff is actually a diff). That can come later.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Looks great this time. Tested on Ebony and Walnut. I've applied it to
my tree.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 1:22 Cleanups for physmap_of.c (v2) David Gibson
2007-09-20 12:33 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-09-20 17:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-21 1:00 ` David Gibson
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