[SLOF] [PATCH] pci-scan: Fix pci-bridge-set-mem-base and pci-bridge-set-mem-limit

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jul 22 06:30:09 AEST 2017


On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:08:02PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> I have no doubts the patch fixes the problem.
> 
> I just wonder if it could be made easier to follow by adding separate words
> for mem64 - pci-bridge-set-mem64-base/pci-bridge-set-mem64-limit - just
> like we have them for pci-{next|max}-{mem|mmio|io}. Also stack comments are
> useful, more than sentences imho. And every time you want to add a comment
> like "\ Align variable to 1MB boundary" to few lines of code - just make it
> a separate word - "pci-next-mem-align-1mb" - which won't even need comments
> (look who I am telling it to) :)

If you need names that long, and *still* the name does not make clear
what the word does, you probably need to factor differently ;-)


Segher


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