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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86: intel-mid: add Merrifield platform support
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Cohen
<david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> This code was partially based on Mark Brown's previous work.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang@intel.com>
> Cc: Mark F. Brown <mark.f.brown@intel.com>
> Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>

I know this has already been merged to Linus' tree, but it looks funny to me.

> --- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_weak_decls.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel_mid_weak_decls.h
> @@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
> */
> extern void * __cpuinit get_penwell_ops(void) __attribute__((weak));
> extern void * __cpuinit get_cloverview_ops(void) __attribute__((weak));
> +extern void * __init get_tangier_ops(void) __attribute__((weak));

We should use "__weak" instead of the gcc-specific "__attribute__((weak))".

I don't think it's a good idea to use __weak on a declaration in a
header file. If there are ever multiple definitions of the symbol,
they are *all* made weak symbols, and one is chosen based on link
order, which is error-prone. I only see one definition now, but the
whole point of weak is to allow multiple definitions, so this looks
like a problem waiting to happen. See 10629d711ed, for example.

It look me a bit to figure out that these get_*_ops() functions are
used by INTEL_MID_OPS_INIT, which constructs the name using a macro,
so grep/cscope/etc. don't see any users. A comment pointing to
INTEL_MID_OPS_INIT would be helpful.

What's the reason for making these symbols weak? Normally we use weak
to make a generic default version of a function, while allowing
architectures to replace the default with their own version if
necessary. But I don't see that happening here. Maybe I'm just
missing it, like I missed the uses of get_tangier_ops(), et al.

Bjorn


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