[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param related code to prom.c

Xie Shaohui-B21989 B21989 at freescale.com
Wed May 9 13:42:24 EST 2012


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xie Shaohui-B21989
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:50 AM
>> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777; linux-watchdog at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-
>> dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param
>> related code to prom.c
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
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>> >> ab
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>> >> .org] On Behalf Of Shaohui Xie
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:37 AM
>> >> To: linux-watchdog at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> >> Cc: Xie Shaohui-B21989
>> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param
>> >> related code to prom.c
>> >>
>> >> Currently, BOOKE watchdog code for checking "wdt" and "wdt_period"
>> >> is in setup_32.c, it cannot be used in 64-bit, so move it to a
>> >> common place prom.c, which will be shared by 32-bit and 64-bit.
>> >>
>> >> Also, replace the simple_strtoul with kstrtol.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie at freescale.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c     |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c |   24 ------------------------
>> >>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>> >
>> >Is not setup-common.c is better place to move this?
>>
>> Move out from setup_32.c does not mean it have to go into
>> setup-common.c, I need better reason to do this.
>>
>
>What I think that setup_32.c is for 32 bit, setup_64.c is for 64 bit and
>setup-common.c is for both.
>
>I am not saying that you move this to setup-common.c. I am asking why you
>have not used setup-common.c ? I am ok even with prom.c.
>
[Xie Shaohui] I'm not a fan of prom.c, I did this because I see same kind of early parameters checking is did in this file only, so I thought maybe I should put them together. And seems setup-common.c is not the place to do command line checking (I'm not sure about this).


Best Regards, 
Shaohui Xie



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