Re: linux-next: kbuild tree build failure

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Milton Miller wrote:

> (1) #define PAGE_OFFSET    (ASM_CONST(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) << 32)
> 
> It creates unreadable code, where two defines with almost the same name (the
> only difference being
> the CONFIG_ prefix, which is often ignored when scanning) contains radically
> different values.
> 
> (2)  #define PAGE_OFFSET    ASM_CONST(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET)

Giving it different names is not really difficult. Any objections to 
CONFIG_PAGE_HIGH_OFFSET?

> On a seperate note,
> > > > >  config PINT3_ASSIGN
> > > > >         hex "PINT3_ASSIGN"
> > > > >         depends on PINTx_REASSIGN
> > > > > -       default 0x02020303
> > > > > +       default 0x2020303
> 
> is harder to read.   The value is a list of 4 1 byte values, but you have
> hidden the first nibble making parsing the rest of the value hard.

Sam mentioned that already, but that's a situation where the warning can 
be relaxed.

> If you are worried about users tring to set values that are too high,
> then make the types be hex8, hex16, hex32, and hex64.

It's not this, I value consistency as much as you and the values are 
sometimes used as integers, so a working range is needed. Using simple 
integers keeps things much simpler and as the ASM_CONST example shows any 
bigger values are not necessarily directly usable anyway.

bye, Roman