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.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/



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