Re: [PATCH v4] platform/chrome: cros_ec_trace: update generating script

[Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>]

Hi Tzung-Bi,

On 1/8/19 15:04, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 6:59 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tzung-Bi
>>
>> On 30/7/19 16:07, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
>>> Hi Enric,
>>>
>>> I found it is error-prone to replace the EC_CMDS after updated.
>>> Perhaps, we should introduce an intermediate file "cros_ec_trace.inc".
>>
>> I am not sure I get you here, a .inc? could you explain a bit more?
>>
> Manually generate .inc for all EC host commands:
> sed ... include/linux/mfd/cros_ec_commands.h | awk ...
>> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_trace.inc
> 
> In cros_ec_trace.c:
> #include "cros_ec_trace.inc"
> 

Got it. I don't think this is a "kernel" way to do it. Also, I don't see a big
value on doing this.

> cros_ec_trace.inc:
> #ifndef EC_CMDS
> #define EC_CMDS \
>     ...
> #endif
> 
> Override the whole file instead of replacing part of file to prevent
> cut-and-paste error.
> 

The way I see all this is that bulk updates of that file "shouldn't be allowed"
or are not preferable. Ideally, _we_ (the maintainers), should take care on have
cros_ec_commands and cros_ec_trace sync. For that, when someone sends a patch
that touches the cros_ec_commands _we_ (them maintainers) should tell him to
update also the cros_ec_trace file in the same patchset, and the script, is
simply a helper to do that.

Note that the cros_ec_trace needs an update to match current cros_ec_commands
but I'm waiting to do the sync because we have a patchset that moves the
cros_ec_commands.h file from include/linux/mfd to include/linux/platform_data.
Once moved I'll sync the cros_ec_trace file with current cros_ec_commands

Note also that actually, we want:

- cros_ec_commands (kernel) sync with ec_commands (EC firmware)
- cros_ec_commands (kernel) sync with cros_ec_trace (kernel)

Hopefully we will have all sync soon.

Thanks,
~ Enric