Re: [PATCH 1/1] [MTD/NAND]: Add Blackfin BF52x on-chip NAND Flashcontroller driver support in bf5xx_nand driver

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 01:43:47 EST



On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 17:04 -0500, Robin Getz wrote:
> It could be a runtime if() but we don't currently have the is_mach() all set
> up properly today.
>
> This is because on most systems that Blackfin ships on - memory is the
> dominate cost of the system, and end users don't want to take the either the
> storage (flash) hit of having code they don't use, or the run time (DRAM)
> overhead. They are fine with compiling 2 kernels for two platforms if it
> means things are cheaper. :)
>
> That being said, we still need to go back, and add things properly - and just
> let gcc optimise things away if it is not used - c code is more maintainable
> than all the ifdefs we have today.
>
> This is the goal - it will just take a little bit to get there.

For now I suspect you could at least define machine_is_bf52x() and
machine_is_bf54x() which are hard-coded to either zero or one according
to the configuration, and at least you wouldn't need to add ifdefs to
drivers.

--
dwmw2

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