Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752683Ab2BVOGQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:06:16 -0500 Received: from 16.mo5.mail-out.ovh.net ([87.98.174.144]:49662 "EHLO mo5.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585Ab2BVOGO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:06:14 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3304 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:06:14 EST Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:57:58 +0100 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Nicolas Ferre , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rmallon@gmail.com X-Ovh-Mailout: 178.32.228.5 (mo5.mail-out.ovh.net) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: at91/pm_slowclock: function slow_clock() accepts parameters Message-ID: <20120222135758.GC9407@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <0d78171672a30e8ec8084f54a557e9948260356d.1329903206.git.nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> <5b8fbdf669825987a82b3b89b2e7f02239cad816.1329903206.git.nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> <20120222095250.GV22562@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20120222125814.GA9407@game.jcrosoft.org> <20120222131816.GB22562@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120222131816.GB22562@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> X-PGP-Key: http://uboot.jcrosoft.org/plagnioj.asc X-PGP-key-fingerprint: 6309 2BBA 16C8 3A07 1772 CC24 DEFC FFA3 279C CE7C User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 17744182532723747763 X-Ovh-Remote: 213.251.161.87 (ns32433.ovh.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-OVH-SPAMSTATE: OK X-OVH-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-OVH-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeegvddrtddtucetggdotefuucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuqfggjfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecuhfhrohhmpeflvggrnhdqvehhrhhishhtohhphhgvucfrnfetiffpkffqnfdqggfknffnteftffcuoehplhgrghhnihhojhesjhgtrhhoshhofhhtrdgtohhmqeenucfjughrpeffhffvuffkfhggtggujggfsehttdfttddtredv X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.5/N X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeegvddrtddtucetggdotefuucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuqfggjfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecuhfhrohhmpeflvggrnhdqvehhrhhishhtohhphhgvucfrnfetiffpkffqnfdqggfknffnteftffcuoehplhgrghhnihhojhesjhgtrhhoshhofhhtrdgtohhmqeenucfjughrpeffhffvuffkfhggtggujggfsehttdfttddtredv Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 23 On 13:18 Wed 22 Feb , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > Btw I'm looking on a way to switch the assembly funciton to C but I didn,t find a > > good way to calculate the function size except by touching at the linker > > script. Which I don;t want to do. > > Forget doing it in C. C is too complicated, because either you have to > keep its relocations and fix them up, or you have to compile and link it > to run at a specific location and then copy it to that location. You > also have literal pools to think about. > > Assembly is much better controlled and you can write it so that you don't > end up with any of that stuff. You have absolute control over the code > and associated data. ok Best Regards, J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/