RFC ARM: use C pre-processor with dtc
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Cover letter [RFC PATCH 0/3] ARM: use C pre-processor with dtc
Quoted 8 lines · Mark Brown
Quoted 5 lines · Scott Wood
Do you have an example of where you'd actually benefit from this? I'd think most things could either be done reasonably well with what's built into DTC (see what we've done in
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl), or would need math expression support in DTC (or has that been added?).
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The constant example is the magic numbers we need to embed into DTs for
things like interrupt modes, making them human readable would be a real
win.
Wasn't there a patch for named constant support in dtc a while back? Hmm:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2012-January/011184.html
I'm not sure that going down the CPP path is better than the possibility of named constants having a different syntax from macros/functions. It would be one thing if someone were actively working on the latter, but this paralysis seems to be a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
-Scott