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From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] add support for the TI VLYNQ bus
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:52:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906041252.19613.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601220854.a9ddd5ce.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Le Tuesday 02 June 2009 07:08:54 Andrew Morton, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:58:27 +0200 Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> 
wrote:
> > This patch adds support for the TI VLYNQ high-speed,
> > serial and packetized bus. This bus allows external
> > devices to be connected to the System-on-Chip and
> > appear in the main system memory just like any memory
> > mapped peripheral. It is widely used in TI's networking
> > and mutlimedia SoC, including the AR7 SoC.
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +struct vlynq_regs {
> > +	u32 revision;
> > +	u32 control;
> > +	u32 status;
> > +	u32 int_prio;
> > +	u32 int_status;
> > +	u32 int_pending;
> > +	u32 int_ptr;
> > +	u32 tx_offset;
> > +	struct vlynq_mapping rx_mapping[4];
> > +	u32 chip;
> > +	u32 autonego;
> > +	u32 unused[6];
> > +	u32 int_device[8];
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define vlynq_reg_read(reg) readl(&(reg))
> > +#define vlynq_reg_write(reg, val)  writel(val, &(reg))
>
> grumble.  These just make the code harder to follow.  it'd be better to
> open-code readl() and writel() at the callsites.

I do not understand how to fix this. Would an inlined accessors be a better 
solution for you?

Thanks.
-- 
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@openwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
-------------------------------

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 11:58 [PATCH 2/9] add support for the TI VLYNQ bus Florian Fainelli
2009-06-02  5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-02  8:30   ` Florian Fainelli
2009-06-04 10:52   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2009-06-04 11:20     ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-02 11:11 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-06-08 11:28 ` Suraj Iyer
2009-06-08 11:40   ` Florian Fainelli

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