> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 11:55 +0700, Arseny Solokha wrote:
>> 
>> And by the way, while revisiting the series I've noticed that though the 
>> patch
>> 4/4 basically reverts [1], it leaves
>> 
>>   #define MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1            0x00030
>> 
>> in arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic.h untouched. That define also loses its uses
>> after applying the patch. Compare the following hunk in today's patch w/ the 
>> one
>> you committed:
>> 
>>   @@ -33,11 +33,6 @@
>>    #define           MPIC_GREG_GCONF_NO_BIAS                 0x10000000
>>    #define           MPIC_GREG_GCONF_BASE_MASK               0x000fffff
>>    #define           MPIC_GREG_GCONF_MCK                     0x08000000
>>   -#define MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1           0x00030
>>   -#define           MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1_SIE             0x08000000
>>   -#define           MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1_CLK_RATIO_MASK  0x70000000
>>   -#define           MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1_CLK_RATIO(r)    \
>>   -                  (((r) << 28) & MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1_CLK_RATIO_MASK)
>>    #define MPIC_GREG_VENDOR_0                0x00040
>>    #define MPIC_GREG_VENDOR_1                0x00050
>>    #define MPIC_GREG_VENDOR_2                0x00060
>> 
>> So the question is, should #define MPIC_GREG_GLOBAL_CONF_1 have been also
>> removed, or could be left as is?
>> 
>> [1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-June/023867.html
>
>
> OK, thanks for the thoroughness.
>
> With #defines like that it's never clear if they should be removed or not. On
> the one hand it's not used, so it should be removed. But, it can be useful to
> keep the #defines there as documentation.
>
> So I'm 50/50 on it. If you send me a patch to remove it I'll merge it, unless
> someone else objects.

So I'd abstain from removing it, for whatever it may be worth. Let it serve the
documentation purposes.

Arsény

> cheers
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