Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Constify flashchips array

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [110119 08:49]:
> Auf 19.01.2011 07:11, Stefan Reinauer schrieb:
> > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [110118 21:29]:
> > You could have a "struct flash_instance" which is passed around and
> > contains all the instance specific information of a flash chip plus a
> > pointer to the struct flashchip element. This way you would cleanly
> > separate the "database" from the flash chips found in the system (and
> > could increase the number of flashes to 16 instead of 3). I know it
> > requires an s,flashchip,flashchip_instance, across most of the code and
> > some additional changes, but the readability might be worth the effort.
>
> Given that almost all the code works with the instance data, it may be
> better to use struct flashchip for the instance data and struct
> flashchip_rodata (or flashchip_def) for the table. If flashchip_rodata
> is an anonymous struct within flashchip, we have easy copying and can
> keep all currently untouched code as is. As a nice side effect, the
> flashrom .text size would shrink by a few percent.
>
> My longterm plans call for programmer info (at least a pointer) in
> struct flashchip so that we can handle multiple flashchips on sister
> buses easier (e.g. software-switched "Dual BIOS" solutions) because
> flashchip contains e.g. a enable_this_chip function pointer.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds great! This is a very good clean up of flashrom's "device model"

Stefan