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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 09/15] dm: Cast away the const-ness of the global_data pointer
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 07:00:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201406080700.08646.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402082012-4152-10-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>

On Friday, June 06, 2014 at 09:13:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> In a very few cases we need to adjust the driver model root device, such as
> when setting it up at initialisation. Add a macro to make this easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> ---

[...]
 
> -	ret = device_bind_by_name(NULL, &root_info, &gd->dm_root);
> +	ret = device_bind_by_name(NULL, &root_info, &DM_ROOT());

[...]

> +/* Cast away any volatile pointer */
> +#define DM_ROOT()		(((gd_t *)gd)->dm_root)
> +#define DM_UCLASS_ROOT()		(((gd_t *)gd)->uclass_root)

Can you implement this "DM_ROOT()" macro as a function instead ? I believe 
that'd be much nicer , would have typechecking etc., usual stuff.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-08  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-06 19:13 [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/15] Collected driver model bug-fixes and docs Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 01/15] Add an I/O tracing feature Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 02/15] arm: Support iotrace feature Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 03/15] sandbox: " Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 04/15] Makefile: Support include files for .dts files Simon Glass
2014-06-06 20:29   ` Jon Loeliger
2014-06-06 20:44     ` Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 05/15] dm: Rename struct device_id to udevice_id Simon Glass
2014-06-06 20:26   ` Jon Loeliger
2014-06-06 20:30     ` Jon Loeliger
2014-06-06 20:36     ` Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 06/15] dm: Update README to encourage conversion to driver model Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 07/15] dm: Use case-insensitive comparison for GPIO banks Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 08/15] dm: Add missing header files in lists and root Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 09/15] dm: Cast away the const-ness of the global_data pointer Simon Glass
2014-06-08  5:00   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2014-06-12  3:26     ` Simon Glass
2014-06-12  3:29       ` Simon Glass
2014-06-17 23:42       ` Marek Vasut
2014-06-18  5:36         ` Simon Glass
2014-06-20  4:07           ` Simon Glass
2014-06-20  4:12             ` Marek Vasut
2014-06-20 20:34               ` Simon Glass
2014-06-20 21:45                 ` Marek Vasut
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/15] dm: Allow driver model tests only for sandbox Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 11/15] dm: Fix printf() strings in the 'dm' command Simon Glass
2014-06-08 22:46   ` Andre Renaud
2014-06-12  3:34     ` Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 12/15] tegra: dts: Bring in GPIO bindings from linux Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 13/15] tegra: Enable driver model Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 14/15] dm: Tidy up four minor code nits Simon Glass
2014-06-08  5:01   ` Marek Vasut
2014-06-06 19:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 15/15] dm: Expand and improve the device lifecycle docs Simon Glass
2014-06-06 19:52   ` Pavel Herrmann
2014-06-06 20:42     ` Simon Glass

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