On 29/04/15 10:49, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, James Hogan wrote:
> 
>>> Error recovery pointers for fixups was improperly set as ".word"
>>> which is unsuitable for MIPS64.
>>>
>>> Replaced by __stringify(PTR)
>>
>> Every other case of this sort of thing uses STR(PTR) (or __UA_ADDR in
>> uaccess.h). Can we stick to STR(PTR) for consistency please?
> 
>  Or __PA_ADDR in paccess.h.
> 
>  I have mixed feelings, the reason for __stringify being absent is the 
> macro being generic and more recently added than pieces of code that use 
> STR, e.g. unaligned.c that has been there since forever.  And we do use 
> __stringify in many other cases.

Well I don't particularly mind, so feel free to add my Reviewed-by
regardless, though it'd be nice to have some consistency eventually one
way or another.

Cheers
James

> 
>  On the other hand STR is short and sweet, unlike __stringify.
> 
>  So how about adding a macro like __STR_PTR that expands to 
> __stringify(PTR) and converting all the places throughout our port 
> (including ones currently using __UA_ADDR/__PA_ADDR) to use the new macro?
> 
>  Leonid's bug fix will need to go in first of course.
> 
>   Maciej
> 

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