On 06/12/12 12:59, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 09:35 +0000, James Hogan wrote: >> On 05/12/12 18:53, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:08 +0000, James Hogan wrote: >>>> Add source files from the Thread Binary Interface (TBI) library which >>>> provides useful low level operations and traps/context management. >>> [] >>>> arch/metag/tbx/tbicache.c | 462 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> >>> Could you please run checkpatch on this file? >> >> Hi Joe, >> >> Thanks for taking a look. >> >> I'd prefer to avoid making style modifications to the tbx/ files if >> possible to ease maintenance, as the code is shared with other projects >> and maintained by a separate group. >> >> Of course if cleaning up the style is deemed absolutely necessary then >> so be it. > > Your choice though the file looks to me to be linux > specific as it uses #include <linux/stddef.h> Yes, I have rearranged the TBX headers and includes a bit, including this one to get the definition of NULL, but have avoided making changes to the actual code so far. > > Also, two functions, __TBIDataCacheFlush and > __TBICodeCacheFlush, have an unnecessary indentation > level after a test and return. > void __TBICodeCacheFlush( const void *pStart, int Bytes ) > { > volatile int *pCtrl = (volatile int *) SYSC_CACHE_MMU_CONFIG; > > if ( !__TBICacheDoneInit ) > __TBICacheInit(); > > if ( (pCtrl[0] & SYSC_CMMUCFG_IC_ON_BIT) == 0 ) > { > /* No need to flush the code cache it's not actually enabled */ > return; > } > > { > /* Use a sequence of writes to flush the cache region requested */ > int Loops, Step; > > etc. > > I believe the automatics in the second blocks should > be moved to the start of the function and the > unnecessary braces and extra indentation removed. > TBI_GETREG reads a control register so the compiler won't be able to move it, so these should probably be kept in the same order, but yes I agree with moving the declarations to the top and getting rid of the extra indentation. tbh since there are only 2 tbx/*.c files and they're both small, I'll clean them both up properly. Thanks James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html