[coreboot] [PATCH] [RFC] sata PHY settings callback on SB700

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Sep 21 06:19:46 CEST 2010


Bao, Zheng wrote:
> I am not quite familiar with the attribute weak. It seems to be a
> good way.

Normally if two functions have the same name the linker will abort
with an error. If one function is weak then it will be removed, and
the non-weak function will be used.

It is good and bad. It allows to override a general function easily,
but on the other hand it may be difficult to determine which code is
actually being used, when many functions have the same name.


//Peter




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