Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753605Ab2JJAEi (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:04:38 -0400 Received: from db3ehsobe006.messaging.microsoft.com ([213.199.154.144]:20987 "EHLO db3outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762Ab2JJAEg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:04:36 -0400 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -4 X-BigFish: VS-4(zzbb2dI98dI9371I1432Izz1202h1d1ah1d2ahzzz2dh2a8h668h839h944hd2bhf0ah107ah1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah139eh13b6h1441h1155h) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 19:04:26 -0500 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: dtc: import latest upstream dtc To: Mitch Bradley CC: Stephen Warren , Michal Marek , Stephen Warren , , In-Reply-To: <5074B155.4090703@firmworks.com> (from wmb@firmworks.com on Tue Oct 9 18:20:53 2012) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-ID: <1349827466.26044.16@snotra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; delsp=Yes; format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1870 Lines: 41 On 10/09/2012 06:20:53 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > On 10/9/2012 11:16 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 10/01/2012 12:39 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote: > >>> > >>> What more do you think needs discussion re: dtc+cpp? > >> > >> How not to abuse the ever-loving shit out of it? :-) > > > > Perhaps we can just handle this through the regular patch review > > process; I think it may be difficult to define and agree upon > exactly > > what "abuse" means ahead of time, but it's probably going to be easy > > enough to recognize it when one sees it? > > > One of the ways it could get out of hand would be via "include > dependency hell". People will be tempted to reuse existing .h files > containing pin definitions, which, if history is a guide, will end up > depending on all sorts of other .h files. > > Another problem I often face with symbolic names is the difficulty of > figuring out what the numerical values really are (for debugging), > especially when .h files are in different subtrees from the files that > use the definitions, and when they use multiple macro levels and fancy > features like concatenation. Sometimes I think it's clearer just to > write the number and use a comment to say what it is. Both comments apply just as well to ordinary C code, and I don't think anyone would seriously suggest just using comments instead for C code. Is there a way to ask CPP to evaluate a macro in the context of the input file, rather than produce normal output? If not, I guess you could make a tool that creates a wrapper file that includes the main file and then evaluates the symbol you want. -Scott -- 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/