Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] riscv: asm: alternative-macros: Introduce ALTERNATIVE_3() macro

[Conor Dooley]

On 24/11/2022 20:05, Conor Dooley wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 08:58:41PM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 24. November 2022, 20:52:33 CET schrieb Conor Dooley:
>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 05:22:01PM +0000, Prabhakar wrote:
>>>> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Introduce ALTERNATIVE_3() macro.
>>>
>>> Bit perfunctory I think! There's a lovely comment down below that would
>>> make for a better commit message if you were to yoink it.
>>> Content looks about what I'd expect to see though.
>>
>> Also both the comment on the original ALTERNATIVE_2 and the new ALTERNATIVE_3
>> should probably be merged into a single comment explaining this once for all
>> ALTERNATIVE_x variants.
>>
>> Especially with the dma stuff, I'm pretty sure we'll get at least an ALTERNATIVE_4
>> if not even more ;-) . So we defnitly don't want to repeat this multiple times.
> 
> Oh I can promise you that there'll be a #4 ;) I do find the comment's
> wording to be quite odd though..
> 
>> + * A vendor wants to replace an old_content, but another vendor has used
>> + * ALTERNATIVE_2() to patch its customized content at the same location. In
> 
> In particular this bit about "at the same location" does not make all
> that much sense. What "at the same location" means in this context
> should be expanded on imo. Effectively it boils down to someone else is
> already replacing the same things you want to replace - it's just the
> word "location" that might make sense if you're an old hand but not
> otherwise?

Or maybe I am just biased because I tried to explain this to someone
recently and the language in the comments didn't make sense to them,
and anyone meddling with this code should be able to understand it?

>> + * this case, this vendor can create a new macro ALTERNATIVE_3() based
> 
> Also, using the word "can". Is it not a "must" rather than a "can",
> since this stuff needs to be multiplatform?
> 
>> + * on the following sample code and then replace ALTERNATIVE_2() with
>> + * ALTERNATIVE_3() to append its customized content.
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