linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Limit check

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Message-ID: <c60f62cb-62e8-be13-f551-c9a13abc7f94@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:25:06 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Limit check_bugs32() to affected platform



On 4/9/2020 8:20 PM, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> In the current code, check_bugs32() only handles MIPS32 CPU type CPU_34K,
> it is better to build and call it on the affected platform.
> 
> Move check_bugs32() to the new added 34k-bugs32.c to indicate the fact that
> the code is specific to the 34k CPU, and also add CONFIG_CPU_34K_BUGS32 to
> control whether or not check the bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>

This is not a whole lot of code, so moving this to a separate
translation unit seems a bit heavy handed, also file renames, albeit
tracked properly by git are always a challenge when doing back ports.
-- 
Florian