From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix whitespace merge in mpc8641 hpcn device tree
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4892421B.3020704@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF7C9A64-AABC-4624-8282-4BAC2D970009@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> np. It would be nice to see dtc warn about it, but that would probably
> be a bit difficult.
One thing that macros may bring besides clarity and elimination of
redundancy is the ability to put some semantic checks in the macro
itself (rather than hardcoding it into dtc). At the very least, this
particular bug would show up as the wrong number of arguments to a macro.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 22:10 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix whitespace merge in mpc8641 hpcn device tree Kumar Gala
2008-07-31 22:18 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-07-31 22:28 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-31 22:52 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-01 3:20 ` David Gibson
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