next pass of cleaning up micropatch.c
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Oct 9 01:46:31 EST 2004
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >+ * Shortcut macros for patching code.
> > */
> >+
> >+#define PATCH2000 \
> >+ dp = (uint *)(commproc->cp_dpmem); \
> >+ for (i=0; i<(sizeof(patch_2000)/4); i++) \
> >+ *dp++ = patch_2000[i];
> >+
> >+#define PATCH2E00 \
> >+ dp = (uint *)&(commproc->cp_dpmem[0x0e00]); \
> >+ for (i=0; i<(sizeof(patch_2e00)/4); i++) \
> >+ *dp++ = patch_2e00[i];
> >+
> >+#define PATCH2F00 \
> >+ dp = (uint *)&(commproc->cp_dpmem[0x0f00]); \
> >+ for (i=0; i<(sizeof(patch_2f00)/4); i++) \
> >+ *dp++ = patch_2f00[i];
>
> Please get rid of these macros and place the code where it
> belongs. They add no value and just make it harder to
> read the code and understand what it does.
I agree. If there were more patches it might make sense to write a
do_microcode_patch2(N) macro, but PATCH2NNN isn't "readable" and it's
only 3 patches.
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Tom Rini
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