Re: [RFC v2 1/8] video: tegra: Add nvhost driver

From: Terje BergstrÃm
Date: Tue Dec 04 2012 - 01:13:24 EST


On 03.12.2012 23:03, Thierry Reding wrote:
> What's really difficult to follow is if an ops structure is accessed via
> some global macro. It also breaks encapsulation because you have a
> global ops structure. That may even work fine for now, but it will break
> once you have more than a single host1x in a system. I know this will
> never happen, but all of a sudden it happens anyway and the code breaks.
> Doing this right isn't very hard and it will lead to a better design and
> is less likely to break at some point.

I agree that the chip ops access goes through too much indirection and
macro magic (which I already declared I hate), so we're going to design
something simpler.

Terje
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