From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Add ARCH_HAS_L2X0 and make CACHE_L2X0 config depend on that
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:13:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616141306.GA21030@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimH979ASCut4dEE0FGJ-3PA3jzfHg_SzVM6eor_@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:43:29AM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:16:26AM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:58:07AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I made a similar change not too long ago, but Russell wanted the define
> >> > to be HAVE_CACHE_L2X0 ..
> >>
> >> possibly, I was thinking ARM_L2X0 would also be an option, since if I
> >> remeber correctly it is selecting the driver not the availability of
> >> it.
> >
> > Yeah, there are lots of different possible names. :)
> >
> > Let's just go with the one Russell preferred and not worry too much
> > about it. There's some presendence to using HAVE_.* already.
> >
>
> Sometimes I am thinking that maybe ARCH_HAS_* has some benefits:
>
> HAVE_* for those kernel-wide and general capabilities
> ARCH_HAS_* for those ARM machine-class specific capabilities?
>
> So to make things a bit more clear? If ARCH_HAS_* is widely adopted
> on architectures other than ARM, maybe we can then switch that name
> to HAVE_*?
We're nowhere near depleting the HAVE_.* namespace, it's quite sparsely
used at the moment. I don't see a need to overengineer things here.
A bike shed of any color will do, etc.
-Olof
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-06-11 16:03 ` [PATCH] ARM: Add ARCH_HAS_L2X0 and make CACHE_L2X0 config depend on that Olof Johansson
2010-06-11 17:58 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-12 4:13 ` [PATCH v2] ARM: Add HAVE_CACHE_L2X0 Olof Johansson
2010-06-13 5:16 ` [PATCH] ARM: Add ARCH_HAS_L2X0 and make CACHE_L2X0 config depend on that Ben Dooks
2010-06-14 14:59 ` Olof Johansson
2010-06-16 3:43 ` Eric Miao
2010-06-16 14:13 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2010-06-16 14:22 ` Eric Miao
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