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Date:	Mon, 1 Jan 2007 05:21:48 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

Some comments, mostly coding style:

> - 0xb0 - 0x13f		Free. Add more parameters here if you really need them.
> + 0xb0   16 bytes	Open Firmware information (magic, version, callback, 
> idt)

Is there an OF ISA binding for x86 somewhere?  And don't
point me to the source code, I'd like to see an actual
reference doc ;-)

> +//	printk(KERN_WARNING "CALLOFW: %s\n", name);

Please remove disabled code.  And don't use // comments
at all please.

> +	if (call_firmware == NULL)
> +		return (-1);

No parentheses around return value.

> +	argarray[0] = (int)name;

This would warn on 64-bit systems, better write it as
(u32)(u64)name (and make sure that "name" is somewhere
in the low 4GB of memory).  This doesn't handle 64-bit
client interface either btw.

> +	while (numargs--) {
> +		argarray[argnum++] = va_arg(ap, int);
> +	}

No braces around single statements.

> +#undef	MAXARGS

Why this #undef?  That's nasty style, and this is at the
end of file anyway.

> +#if 0

Better use a normal comment.

> +Here are call templates for all the standard OFW client services.

You missed "instance-to-interposed-path" (standard, although
not required).

> + * By Mitch Bradley (wmb@...mworks.com), with assistance from David 
> Kahn.
> + * Most of the basic virtual file system structure was taken from a
> + * "promfs" example written by Arnd Bergmann.  + *

My mailer messed up this line, that means you have trailing
spaces here :-)

> +	    +	if (root == 0) {

Same here.

> +++ b/include/asm-i386/callofw.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +#ifndef _I386_PROM_H
> +#define _I386_PROM_H

Better make the #define correspond to the file name.


Segher

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