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From: Tom <Tom.Rix@windriver.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] arm/board.c: avoid ifdef using weak	default functions
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:18:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0ED47E.7070608@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFEFF18889.F672B372-ONC125767A.0031E15D-C125767A.0032711D@transmode.se>

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>
>>
>> While it's a matter of personal taste, I prefer to avoid ifdef when
>> possible.  For example, I don't like to add BOARD_LATE_INIT in the
>> config file just to add a board_late_init() function.
>> Also, I think the file is more readable without the ifdef stuff.
>> This uses two trivial weak functions to provide defaults for all
>> functions that were ifdeffed.
>>
>> This patch was initially rejected in favor of a initcall mechanism
>> but that approach is not a work in progress any ore.
>> ---
>>
>> One complaint I got about this is the runtime overhead. Actually,
>> normal_nop is two instructions (plus the call to it) and void_nop
>> is one instruction (plus the call), similar to the overhead in
>> led management for platforms with no leds.
> 
> I think (I have proposed this before) that you should get rid of
> the init_fnc_t *init_sequence[] array all together. It only
> adds relocation overhead(lots of it). Just make the array a function
> that calls the init functions directly.
>

Please resend the RFC patch.
This would also go the arm/testing-arm_init branch.

I am interested in flexibility and maintainability.
Not so much on size.

Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-26  8:35 [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] arm/board.c: avoid ifdef using weak default functions Alessandro Rubini
2009-11-26  9:10 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-26 19:18   ` Tom [this message]
2009-11-27 10:37     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-26 19:12 ` Tom

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