From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: tegra: refactor tegra{20,30}_boot_secondary
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:33:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5128469C.2050104@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361592380.1804.20.camel@jlo-ubuntu-64.nvidia.com>
On 02/22/2013 09:06 PM, Joseph Lo wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 02:28 +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 02/21/2013 11:24 PM, Joseph Lo wrote:
>>> From: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> "tegra_boot_secondary()" has many condition branches for some Tegra
>>> SoC generations in a single function so that it's not easy to compile
>>> a kernel only for a single SoC if one wants with some reason, debug
>>> purpose(?). This patch provides SoC specific version of
>>> boot_secondary(), tegra{20,30}_boot_secondary(). This could allow
>>> any combination of SoC to be built. Those boot_secondary functions can
>>> be preparation when we ntroduce chip specific function pointers in the
>>> future without having chip dependent branches around.
>>>
>>> Also removed unused definition/prototpye.
>>
>> That "also" is really something that should be a separate patch, since
>> it's not related to the code refactoring that's the main purpose of this
>> patch.
>>
>> However, I'll let it slide this time, since I think both patches would
>> just end up in Tegra's cleanup branch anyway, even though I did already
>> point this out (multiple times?) during downstream review:-( You're
>> getting lucky because I don't feel like reviewing this again.
>>
>> I'll apply this series once I can apply patches for 3.10.
>>
>> One note to anyone else reading this patch: It does look like this is
>> duplicating code that was previously nicely shared in
>> tegra_boot_secondary(). However, I believe it's appropriate to do this
>> in this case, since the equivalent code for future SoCs (such as
>> Tegra114) is extremely different, and so the current shared code won't
>> end up being shared, and this would just make tegra_boot_secondary()
>> over-complex with conditionals when adding Tegra114 support.
>
> Hiroshi,
>
> Per Stephen's comment, should we drop this patch? And refactoring this
> later when I add support for Tegra114 CPU PM function.
Well I did say it wasn't worth reposting for this.
But either way, I wasn't saying anything at all about dropping the
patch, just that the patch should have been two separate patches since
it really does two separate things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-23 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-22 6:24 [PATCH 1/3] ARM: tegra: Fix unchecked return value Joseph Lo
2013-02-22 6:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: tegra30: fix the logical detection of power on sequence of warm boot CPUs Joseph Lo
2013-02-22 6:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: tegra: refactor tegra{20,30}_boot_secondary Joseph Lo
2013-02-22 18:28 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-23 4:06 ` Joseph Lo
2013-02-23 4:33 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-03-06 21:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: tegra: Fix unchecked return value Stephen Warren
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