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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: supplementing IO accessors with 64 bit capability
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:19:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022171942.GC27405@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANLsYkwGtB0=VDFa-p11AGFA1XLjgGQGLa-U4WYtSs7-pHtVdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 06:22:09PM +0200, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> I had this conversation with a colleague who reviewed the work.  If
> the architecture is < 5 the __raw_ versions aren't included and the
> compiler won't complain until someone tries to use the macros.  We
> achieve the same result - the macros aren't accessible when the
> architecture doesn't support it - while saving an #if condition in the
> file.
> 
> I'm not strongly opinionated on this - I can enclose the macros in an
> #if statement.

What you're missing is that some driver may test for their presence by
doing:

#ifndef readq_relaxed
... do something else

which would now break as a detection method, as the macro is always
defined no matter whether it's present or not.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 16:06 mathieu.poirier
2014-10-22 16:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-10-22 16:22   ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-22 17:19     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-10-22 17:55       ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-22 16:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-10-22 19:10   ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-24  9:28     ` Catalin Marinas
2014-10-24 15:05       ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-24 16:16         ` Catalin Marinas
2014-10-24 17:54           ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-27 15:54           ` Will Deacon
2014-10-27 22:14             ` Mathieu Poirier
2014-10-28 12:23               ` Will Deacon
2014-10-23 19:47   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-10-23 19:51     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-10-23 20:15       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-10-24 10:37         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-24  9:23     ` Catalin Marinas

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