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

[Lad, Prabhakar]

Hi Heiko,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 7:58 PM Heiko Stübner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
Do agree. How about the below?

/*
 * Similar to what ALTERNATIVE_2() macro does but with an additional
 * vendor content.
 */

So the other ALTERNATIVE_2+() macros will keep on building on it.

Cheers,
Prabhakar