Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:34:58 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] vmlinux.lds.h clean-ups | From | Rob Herring <> |
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> > > Several DeviceTree related sections have been added recently to enable > early DT initialization calls. I have the need to add yet another one > in order to do a DT based earlycon. Since each section follows the same > pattern, this seemed like a good opportunity for some clean-up. So > this series creates a common macro to define these sections. with this > adding any new OF table section is a 2 line change. > > Each section ends with a zeroed struct of_device_id (except cpu_method). > Right now there is an end section and a dummy variable to create the end > marker. Really, we just need padding here, but I haven't come up with a > way for the linker script to get the struct size. > > The last patch extends the same concept to another common pattern for > section definitons. There's still others which could be easily converted > also, but I'm looking for feedback on this approach before proceeding > any further. > > Rob > > Rob Herring (4): > irqchip: align irqchip OF match table section naming > ARM: align cpu_method_of_table naming > vmlinuz.lds: define OF table sections with macros > vmlinux.lds: define conditional sections with macros > > arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c | 11 +-- > drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c | 6 +- > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 142 +++++++++++---------------------------
Arnd, Any comments on this series?
Rob
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