[RFC v2 23/24] m68k/mac: Fix PRAM accessors

Andreas Schwab schwab at linux-m68k.org
Fri Jun 19 02:52:44 AEST 2015


Finn Thain <fthain at telegraphics.com.au> writes:

> When I have reliable documentation I always define macros. So I agree that 
> "command" bytes like 0x34 and 0x3800 should have names but what are the 
> correct names? Are we constructing an opcode containing RTC register file 
> addresses or are we issuing read/write accesses to chip registers?

Any name will do as long as the magic constant is not duplicated.  It is
more important to document the relation between two uses than to have a
correct name (which can trivially be updated later).

Andreas.

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