From: Nico Erfurth <ne@erfurth.eu>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:37:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9D85E4.2040606@erfurth.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9D81ED.7090809@ahsoftware.de>
Alexander Holler wrote:
> I wonder how many people believe that either there will be another
> DockStar with the same HW and GPIOs for the LEDs but more memory (and
> still without sata) or that there will be another SheevaPlug with just
> 128MB RAM or that someone could have a reason to change the memory
> layout using a mem= parameter.
>
> For me all that is pretty unlikely.
As Nicolas stated it's not just about "Oh, thats totally unlikely to
happen!". It is about maintainable code, if somebody looks at it in 3
years they should not think "WTF?!?!". Using machine ids and the
generated macros helps to keep the code clean and readable.
Nico
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-07 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 20:35 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: Differentiate SheevaPlugs and DockStars on the basis of the memory size Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 21:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 22:45 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 23:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 23:22 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 2:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-07 8:55 ` Alexander Clouter
2011-04-07 21:31 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 21:44 ` Alexander Clouter
2011-04-07 21:59 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 22:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-07 23:04 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-08 7:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-08 8:38 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-09 8:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-04-10 18:14 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-10 19:29 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 23:23 ` Eric Cooper
2011-04-06 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Remove machine type dockstar (use sheevaplug instead) Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 21:43 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars Nico Erfurth
2011-04-07 9:20 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 9:37 ` Nico Erfurth [this message]
2011-04-07 9:44 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 17:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-08 3:38 ` Alexander Holler
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