Hi Arnd,
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2014, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>> > +
>> > +#ifndef readq_relaxed
>> > +#define readq_relaxed readq
>> > +#endif
>>
>> Not really sure if it matters but this gives a rather surprising
>> behaviour to #ifdef readq_relaxed given that readq may not be defined.
>
> It was intentional. I could have written this as
>
> #if !defined(readq_relaxed) && defined(readq)
>
> but the effect would be almost the same, and the version I picked looks
> simpler.
However, as soon as a driver has code like
#ifdef readq_relaxed
do something using readq_relaxed
#else
...
#endif
this will fail if readq is not defined.
Currently no code has such an #ifdef, though.
There are #ifdefs for checking for the presence of readq.
The same is true for writeq_relaxed.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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