Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param related code to prom.c

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On May 8, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:

>>>>>> .org] On Behalf Of Shaohui Xie
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:37 AM
>>>>>> To: linux-watchdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Cc: Xie Shaohui-B21989
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param
>>>>>> related code to prom.c
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Currently, BOOKE watchdog code for checking "wdt" and "wdt_period"
>>>>>> is in setup_32.c, it cannot be used in 64-bit, so move it to a
>>>>>> common place prom.c, which will be shared by 32-bit and 64-bit.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also, replace the simple_strtoul with kstrtol.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c     |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c |   24 ------------------------
>>>>>> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is not setup-common.c is better place to move this?
>>>> 
>>>> Move out from setup_32.c does not mean it have to go into
>>>> setup-common.c, I need better reason to do this.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What I think that setup_32.c is for 32 bit, setup_64.c is for 64 bit
>>> and setup-common.c is for both.
>>> 
>>> I am not saying that you move this to setup-common.c. I am asking why
>>> you have not used setup-common.c ? I am ok even with prom.c.
>>> 
>> [Xie Shaohui] I'm not a fan of prom.c, I did this because I see same kind of
>> early parameters checking is did in this file only, so I thought maybe I should
>> put them together. And seems setup-common.c is not the place to do command line
>> checking (I'm not sure about this).
>> 
> 
> Ok, so you are also not sure.
> Let us see what other guys things of this.

Put it in setup-common.c.  prom.c has normally been mostly OF/dts related parsing.

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