linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] of/flattree: Use common ALIGN() macro instead of archspecific

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Message-ID: <5facd128-d48a-4b9e-9b4e-83cabcf33921@SG2EHSMHS003.ehs.local>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:36:21 -0700
From:	Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com>
To:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
CC:	<benh@...nel.crashing.org>, <monstr@...str.eu>,
	<microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au>,
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	<sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] of/flattree: Use common ALIGN() macro instead of archspecific _ALIGN



> -----Original Message-----
> From: glikely@...retlab.ca [mailto:glikely@...retlab.ca] On Behalf Of Grant Likely
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:34 PM
> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
> Cc: benh@...nel.crashing.org; monstr@...str.eu; microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au; devicetree-
> discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; jeremy.kerr@...onical.com;
> sfr@...b.auug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/flattree: Use common ALIGN() macro instead of archspecific _ALIGN
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
> <stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: glikely@...retlab.ca [mailto:glikely@...retlab.ca] On Behalf Of Grant Likely
> >> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:16 PM
> >> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
> >> Cc: benh@...nel.crashing.org; monstr@...str.eu; microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au; devicetree-
> >> discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; jeremy.kerr@...onical.com;
> >> sfr@...b.auug.org.au
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/flattree: Use common ALIGN() macro instead of archspecific _ALIGN
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
> >> <stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com> wrote:
> >> > Grant,
> >> >
> >> > I need this for the PCI project.  I also have a couple of other
> >> > generalizations of the drivers/of code
> >> > to get it to run after boot time in an X86 system...
> >>
> >> Send me your patches!  :-)  Get them to me soon and I'll queue them up
> >> for the next merge window.
> >>
> >> g.
> >
> > Dangit, I just got the code compiling, and now I find out that X86 doesn't support out_be32()...  :)
> > You'd think that somewhere somebody might have realized that all the duplicated driver macros that
> > do that are a bad idea...
> 
> :-)
> 
> I think iowrite32be should be cross-arch safe.  in_*, out_* was mostly
> a powerpc/sparc thing.
> 
> g.

See.. I told you it was a good idea to have that abstracted.. :)

S

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