Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst'
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Jun 16 2021 - 09:05:56 EST
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Le 15/06/2021 à 09:18, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> This series is a cleanup of the use of 'struct ppc_inst'.
>>>
>>> A confusion is made between internal representation of powerpc
>>> instructions with 'struct ppc_inst' and in-memory code which is
>>> and will always be an array of 'unsigned int'.
>>
>> Why don't we use u32 *, to make it even more explicit what the expected
>> size is?
>>
>
> I guess that's historical, we could use u32 *
Yeah I think it is historical, we just never thought about it much.
> We can convert it incrementaly maybe ?
I've still got this series in next-test, so I'll go through it and
change any uses of unsigned int * to u32 *, and then we can do another
pass later to change the remaining cases.
cheers