From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: libfdt: Increase namespace-pollution paranoia
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:02:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KITJM-0006tO-MR@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709041024.GB29648@yookeroo.seuss>
> libfdt is supposed to easy to embed in projects all and sundry.
> Often, it won't be practical to separate the embedded libfdt's
> namespace from that of the surrounding project. Which means there can
> be namespace conflicts between even libfdt's internal/static functions
> and functions or macros coming from the surrounding project's headers
> via libfdt_env.h.
>
> This patch, therefore, renames a bunch of libfdt internal functions
> and macros and makes a few other chances to reduce the chances of
> namespace collisions with embedding projects. Specifically:
> - Internal functions (even static ones) are now named _fdt_*()
>
> - The type and (static) global for the error table in
> fdt_strerror() gain an fdt_ prefix
>
> - The unused macro PALIGN is removed
>
> - The memeq and streq macros are removed and open-coded in the
> users (they were only used once each)
>
> - Other macros gain an FDT_ prefix
>
> - To save some of the bulk from the previous change, an
> FDT_TAGALIGN() macro is introduced, where FDT_TAGALIGN(x) ==
> FDT_ALIGN(x, FDT_TAGSIZE)
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Applied.
jdl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 4:10 libfdt: Increase namespace-pollution paranoia David Gibson
2008-07-09 11:42 ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-09 12:54 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-09 13:09 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-07-14 19:02 ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
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2008-07-14 19:08 Jon Loeliger
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