Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> Hi Willy,
> Willy Tarreau writes:
>
>> I dont agree with you here : enums are good to simply specify an ordering.
>> But they must not be used to specify static mapping. Eg: if REG4 *must* be
>> equal to BASE+4, you should not use enums, otherwise it will render the
>> code unreadable. I personnaly don't want to count the position of REG7 in
>> the enum to discover that it's at BASE+7.
>
>
> Sorry, what do you have to count with the following?
> enum {
> TLCLK_REG0 = TLCLK_BASE,
> TLCLK_REG1 = TLCLK_BASE+1,
> TLCLK_REG2 = TLCLK_BASE+2,
> };
> Please note that enums are a general way of specifying _constants_ with the
type int, not necessarily named enumerations.
BTW, a lot of drivers use define for register mapping in kernel. Since enum
is not a new C feature, I'm wondering why kernel have prefered using define
in the past...
thanks,
Francis
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