[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/6] dm: cpu: Add a new get_count method to cpu uclass

[Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>]

Hi Bin,

On 15 June 2015 at 18:19, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Bin,
>>
>> On 13 June 2015 at 04:11, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Introduce a new method 'get_count' in the UCLASS_CPU ops to get
>>> the number of CPUs in the system.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>> - Drop patches already applied and rebase on u-boot-x86/master
>>> - New patch to add a new get_count method to cpu uclass
>>>
>>> Changes in v2: None
>>>
>>>  drivers/cpu/cpu-uclass.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>>  include/cpu.h            | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpu/cpu-uclass.c b/drivers/cpu/cpu-uclass.c
>>> index d6be9d4..8efb17c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/cpu/cpu-uclass.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/cpu/cpu-uclass.c
>>> @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ int cpu_get_info(struct udevice *dev, struct cpu_info *info)
>>>         return ops->get_info(dev, info);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +int cpu_get_count(struct udevice *dev, int *count)
>>
>> Can we please return count and avoid the 'count' parameter? We can use
>> -ve for errors.
>>
>
> Yes, but I was wondering that if it looks inconsistent to other two
> cpu ops? (or maybe other dm driver ops?)

I think that if the return value needs to be a postive int, then we
should just use the return value. In other cases perhaps not. It is
slightly more efficient and a little easier to read.

Regards,
Simon