Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:39:28 -0400
From:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
To:	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: asm-generic update candidates?

On Fri 4 Sep 2009 09:32, Arnd Bergmann pondered:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009, Robin Getz wrote:
> > Arnd:
> > 
> > I was reviewing some files in ./arch/blackfin/include for missing 
copyrights, 
> > and while tracking things down I noticed there were still some likely 
> > candidates for inclusion in asm-generic...
> 
> Ah, thanks. I basically started out with the list of files that exist in
> almost all architectures. I never looked at files that are identical in
> some architectures but nonexistent in more than a few others.
> 
> Also, my plan is to do one architecture at a time,

Which arch are you starting with?

> not one file at a time 
> across all architectures, because that will reduce the need for coordination
> between multiple maintainers.

Makes sense. I guess I saw your earlier commits changing all archs, and 
thought you were doing it the other way around.

> > All seem to be the same file:
> > 
> > md5sum:
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  blackfin/include/asm/fb.h
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  cris/include/asm/fb.h
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  frv/include/asm/fb.h
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  h8300/include/asm/fb.h
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  s390/include/asm/fb.h
> > 5b6b31d728ed2ed0df73c56676fdc68f  xtensa/include/asm/fb.h
> 
> Look at the latest version. Some architectures have already started
> using the generic version, e.g. blackfin.

Yeah, sorry - I was looking at our release tree - not Linus's.

> > e31d052cbba4f417ba2158a41b0d8709  arm/include/asm/fb.h
> > e31d052cbba4f417ba2158a41b0d8709  m32r/include/asm/fb.h
> > e31d052cbba4f417ba2158a41b0d8709  sh/include/asm/fb.h
> 
> Interesting one. The only difference between these and the
> above is the use of pgprot_writecombine, which is defined as
> pgprot_noncached on the other architectures.
>  
[snip]
>  
> > There seems to be lots of similarities in
[snip]

Hmm - all I listed are already in Linus's tree...

Sorry about the noise.

> > Do you keep a list somewhere?
> 
> Well, this is how I started out writing doing the common files
> in the first place. I looked at the most similar files, and then
> used vimdiff on up to four files at a time, changing them to
> be exactly identical by editing out all the bitrot.
> 
> In general, if a file exists in asm-generic, it should be usable
> by some of the architectures, if it does not exist then either it
> is too hard to make a generic version or I have not looked at it
> yet.

OK -- here are some identical ones:

8253pit.h (alpha and power)
fbio.h    (m68k and sparc)
md.h      (h8300, alpha and m68k)

I also noticed in Linus's latest (last commit 
37d0892c5a94e208cf863e3b7bac014edee4346d):

cat arch/microblaze/include/asm/ipc.h
#include <asm-generic/ipc.h>

but: ls include/asm-generic/ipc.h
ls: cannot access include/asm-generic/ipc.h: No such file or directory

?

> If you want to help convert an architecture, try doing
> 
> for i in include/asm-generic/*.h ; do
>       vimdiff ${i} arch/${ARCH}/include/asm/${i##*/}
> done
> 
> If the files are identical, replace the contents of the arch
> specific one with a simple #include <asm-generic/${i}>. If they
> are almost identical, add overrides like in
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/posix_types.h, possibly adding the
> option for overriding to the generic file. For files that
> are rather different, just leave them alone.

Will do.

Thanks.
-Robin
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