On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:04:02PM -0700, Ardelean, Andrei wrote:
> I am porting LINUX MIPS from MALTA on a new board. The problem is that
> .../mips-boards/maltaint.h files is included in a non-MALTA specific
> file, irq-gic.c, without #ifdef CONFIG_MALTA protection. The only need
> there is for the following constant:
> #define X 0xdead
That's just poor programming style. 1 character long names in headers are
begging for conflicts and with few exceptions as the universal loop index
variables i, j, k are not descriptive.
Including system specific headers hinders code reusability and reusability
is the reason why most of the irq-*.c files are in arch/mips/kernel and not
hidden away in some platform specific directory.
> What is the recommended way to follow since I will replace maltaint.h
> with my new file gdint.h?
Post a patch to cleanup the mess.
In this case (and I haven't looked at it for more than 30s ...) it seems
that the constant X should be moved into <asm/gic.h> after which the
inclusion of the Malta header can go away.
Ralf
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