linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 1/8] video: tegra: Add nvhost driver

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Message-ID: <50BD9573.2080802@nvidia.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:17:23 +0200
From:	Terje Bergström <tbergstrom@...dia.com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
CC:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/8] video: tegra: Add nvhost driver

On 03.12.2012 23:03, Thierry Reding wrote:
> What's really difficult to follow is if an ops structure is accessed via
> some global macro. It also breaks encapsulation because you have a
> global ops structure. That may even work fine for now, but it will break
> once you have more than a single host1x in a system. I know this will
> never happen, but all of a sudden it happens anyway and the code breaks.
> Doing this right isn't very hard and it will lead to a better design and
> is less likely to break at some point.

I agree that the chip ops access goes through too much indirection and
macro magic (which I already declared I hate), so we're going to design
something simpler.

Terje
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