linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 18/21] powerpc: use libfdt accessors for header data

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Message-ID: <5357CC66.5080802@monstr.eu>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:21:26 +0200
From:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/21] powerpc: use libfdt accessors for header data

On 04/23/2014 04:05 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu> wrote:
>> On 04/23/2014 03:18 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> From: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>>>
>>> With libfdt support, we can take advantage of helper accessors in libfdt
>>> for accessing the FDT header data. This makes the code more readable and
>>> makes the FDT blob structure more opaque to the kernel. This also
>>> prepares for removing struct boot_param_header completely.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> @@ -117,14 +118,14 @@ static void __init move_device_tree(void)
>>>       DBG("-> move_device_tree\n");
>>>
>>>       start = __pa(initial_boot_params);
>>> -     size = be32_to_cpu(initial_boot_params->totalsize);
>>> +     size = fdt_totalsize(initial_boot_params);
>>
>> In 19/21 you use your newly introduced of_get_flat_dt_size()
>> that's why I expect you will use it here too.
>> size = of_get_flat_dt_size();
>>
>> The same is for 14/21 where you can use this new function too.
>> It means moving 14/21 to the end and using this new function
>> makes more sense.
> 
> Really, I would prefer to just use libfdt accessors directly rather
> than have wrappers, but including libfdt.h is not the cleanest
> solution. Since x86 just needed this one function, I added a wrapper.
> Since PPC needs other header fields I prefer to use the libfdt
> accessors directly for all fields. The same goes for drivers/of/fdt.c.

Ok. I see your point but maybe will be good to reflect that it is
there just for x86 case and none else should use it.

Thanks,
Michal


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