[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] beautify m57sli mptable.c (Was: Fix FireWire...)

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Jan 7 14:17:39 CET 2008


On 07.01.2008 12:21, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>
>   
>> This is a much needed simplification and readability improvement. Thanks!
>> Generated code seems to be unchanged.
>>
>> If you drop the #undef lines (or explain why we absolutely need them),
>> you can take the ack from below.
>>     
>
> I consider it good practise to undef such readability macros as soon as they 
> are not needed any more, like freeing unused memory. But I really have no 
> strong opinion about them, no problem.
>   

OK, that is a good reason.

>> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
>>     
>
> Thanks, revision 3035.
>   
>> Bonus points if you manage to convert all mptable.c files for MCP55 (or
>> even, if that task is not too daring, all mptable.c files).
>>     
>
> You mean something like perl -pe 
> s:smp_write_intsrc\(mc,\s*mp_INT,\s*MP_IRQ[^,]*,\s*bus_isa\s*,(([^,]*),[^,]*,
> ([^)]*)):ISA_INT($2, $3):g;
> and so on? Turn it into a full-blown script and run it per board?
> Maybe.
>   

Yes, that would be cool. However, the needed macros even differ for
different mcp55 boards, so scripted replacement may need a human to look
over the results.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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