[PATCH] of/flattree: use callback to setup initrd from /chosen

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jan 13 22:03:42 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 23:43 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Michael Ellerman
> <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 18:54 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> > >  void early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start,
> >> > >                                 unsigned long end);
> >> >
> >> > arch_early_init_dt_setup_initrd() makes more sense to me, but ..
> >>
> >> <foo>_arch has been the general convention for arch-specific hooks in
> >> drivers/of/.
> >
> > Yuck, doh, guess I should have read those patches before they went in :)
> 
> It's not necessarily permanent.  My first goal is to get the common
> code merged.  Then I want to look closely at it for patterns and
> refactor how the common code calls out to arch specific hooks (or
> maybe turn it around and have arch code calling out to the common
> bits).

Sure, no biggy. There is lots of precedent for arch hooks to be called
arch_foo() or topic_arch_foo(), but it's not the end of the world.

cheers


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