[PATCH 7/16] powerpc: add support for ps3 platform

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Fri Nov 17 13:04:40 EST 2006


Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 17:33 -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> >> > +
>> >> > +enum page_size {
>> >> > +	page_size_4k = 12U,
>> >> > +	page_size_64k = 16U,
>> >> > +	page_size_16m = 24U,
>> >> > +};
>> >> 
>> >> Please use ALL_CAPS for such constants.
>> > 
>> > And call them PAGE_SHIFT_* while at it :-)
>> 
>> The HV docs call this page size, so that is what I used for
>> the symbol.  I'll look at the usage again and reconsider.
> 
> No need to look at it, it's a shift not a size, the page size is not 12
> bytes. Keeping it consistent with the HV docs is a concern, but so is
> making it consistent with every other part of the kernel - which calls
> this a shift, see page.h f.e.

Well, I meant reconsider in more of a broad sense, in like, maybe I can just do
something to get rid of it...



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