Re: accessing vfpinstr macros from outside vfp directory

[Will Deacon]

Hi Bryan,

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 22:54 +0100, Bryan Huntsman wrote:
> On 04/01/11 10:27, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Neil,
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 22:04 +0100, Neil Leeder wrote:
> >> Any opinions on what would be the best thing to do here? Choices
> appear to be:
> >>
> >> 1) allow the relative include path of ../vfp/vfpinstr.h
> >> 2) move the definitions of fmrx, fmxr from vfp/vfpinstr.h to
> include/asm/vfp.h
> >> 3) move vfp/vfpinstr.h to include/asm
> >> 4) other...?
> >>
> >> If it helps, I can create a patch for whichever is considered the
> preferred solution.
> >>
> >
> > I personally don't find option (1) that offensive - Bryan seemed to
> > differ though so perhaps option (2) would keep him happy?
> >
> > I don't think option (3) is sensible given that the majority of the
> > header file is private to /vfp.
> >
> > Will
> 
> I raised it as a question.  If that's the only sane thing to do here,
> then do it.  Since no one else seems to have chimed in on (2) or (3),
> I'm fine with the patch as-is.

Ok, great. Let's leave it like it is for the time-being and if other
people start using things from the vfp headers then we should consider
refactoring some of that code (currently I think it's restricted to this
patch series and some files under vfp/).

Cheers,

Will

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