linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003

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Message-ID: <e1f88cbb-f3b8-7de4-4aed-004c7610da0a@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Fri, 6 Jan 2017 09:49:13 -0600
From:   Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
To:     Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shankerd@...eaurora.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003

Christopher Covington wrote:
>> > Also, since this can't be changed via the menu, why bother putting it in?
> I put it in in response to review comments asking for the magic number to
> be clarified by a #define or variable. I could not find a suitably shared
> header between the files in question, so I used the Kconfig machinery to
> generate the #define.

I don't think that's the right approach.  Kconfigs are not an 
alternative to header files.  Is the ASID configurable?  If you just put 
some text after the "int" then it because a menu option that the user 
can select and change.

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