Re: [PATCHv7 3/3] edac: altera: Add EDAC support for Altera SoC SDRAM Controller.

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2014-07-08 13:42:28, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:31:09PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > +	read_reg = readl(mc_vbase + DRAMADDRW);
> > > +
> > > +	width = readl(mc_vbase + DRAMIFWIDTH);
> > > +
> > > +	col = (read_reg & DRAMADDRW_COLBIT_MASK) >>
> > > +		DRAMADDRW_COLBIT_LSB;
> > > +	row = (read_reg & DRAMADDRW_ROWBIT_MASK) >>
> > > +		DRAMADDRW_ROWBIT_LSB;
> > > +	bank = (read_reg & DRAMADDRW_BANKBIT_MASK) >>
> > > +		DRAMADDRW_BANKBIT_LSB;
> > > +	cs = (read_reg & DRAMADDRW_CSBIT_MASK) >>
> > > +		DRAMADDRW_CSBIT_LSB;
> > 
> > As I said, all the defines only make this harder to read. The code is
> > pretty obvious if you put numbers in here...
> 
> Since when it is a good coding practice to put naked numbers instead of
> descriptive macro names??!
> 
> Now, I can understand that the macro names could be made more
> descriptive so that you can understand what they mean, but naked
> numbers?! You must be joking although 1st of April is long gone.

I'm not joking. Try to understand and verify the code above. You
can't. The "descriptive macro names" are useless; all the code does is
split register in pieces. With the numbers it would be  very obvious.


									Pavel
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