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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] gpio: tegra: use named constants
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:17:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561029E6.9070501@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ1VpsyFA-NFX1+0eHSxJ6=cTi8JYPBpS=eQ8GH-PFhMjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/03/2015 08:14 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On 2 October 2015 at 00:29, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 10/01/2015 05:00 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>
>>> On Friday, 25 September 2015, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>>>
>>>> In order to make it clear what the parameters to set_config() and
>>>> set_direction() mean, and similarly for the return values from the
>>>> respective get_*(), define named constants for these values.
>>>>
>>>> Disassembly shows no diff in the generated code, except that the
>>>> order of the code in the branches of tegra_gpio_get_function() gets
>>>> modified without affecting behaviour.
>>
>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/tegra_gpio.c b/drivers/gpio/tegra_gpio.c
>>
>>
>>>> +static const int CONFIG_SFIO = 0;
>>>> +static const int CONFIG_GPIO = 1;
>>>> +static const int DIRECTION_INPUT = 0;
>>>> +static const int DIRECTION_OUTPUT = 1;
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not use an enum?
>>
>>
>> I don't think it gives any benefit does it?
>>
>> Doing so would entail 5 extra lines of overhead for the enum { and } lines.
>> I'd want to define two separate enum blocks since I dislike putting
>> logically unrelated enum values into a single enum definition. Even if I
>> didn't do that, it's still 2 lines of useless overhead to add everything
>> into a single enum.
> 
> It's just odd to use const int instead of enum I think.

What makes it odd?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-03 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25 16:44 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gpio: tegra: remove unused type Stephen Warren
2015-09-25 16:44 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] gpio: tegra: use named constants Stephen Warren
2015-10-01 23:00   ` Simon Glass
2015-10-01 23:29     ` Stephen Warren
2015-10-03 14:14       ` Simon Glass
2015-10-03 19:17         ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2015-10-01 23:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gpio: tegra: remove unused type Simon Glass

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