Re: [PATCH 2/3] msm: iommu: Generalize platform data for multiple targets

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:53 -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11 2011, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:03 -0800, David Brown wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 11 2011, Steve Muckle wrote:
> 
> >> If they were used in more than one place, we could justify the
> >> definition, but in this case, the definition just obscures the code
> >> slightly.
> 
> Someone debugging it will look at the constant.  In fact, in general,
> the only person looking at this structure will want to know the value in
> the table.  Indirecting it through a pointer only serves to hide it from
> the person who wants to know the value.

Like I said in my example, people looking at the code won't always be
debugging.

> > A good example might be if all these constants are enumerated in a
> > header file, but aren't all used. In that case it would be fairly easy
> > to add a new resource without even know what the constant is just by
> > following the pattern.
> 
> This I definitely want to avoid.  I have seen header files with hundreds
> of thousands of register definitions, where only a few were used.

I think your thinking of stuff that's not properly grouped.

> > I think in general this series just makes this iommu code very much
> > 8660/8960 only code, but what about the potential next iteration of SoC
> > that uses very similar code to this with all new constants. So this
> > doesn't seem forward thinking to me.
> 
> The table would have the different addresses in it.  My point is that
> the resource table _is_ the definition of the addres.  Nothing is gained
> by inventing yet another name and putting that somewhere else.

In my example I showed you there is something to be gained by doing
this. As you said already there isn't must lost in doing it this way.

Daniel

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