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From: florian.meier@koalo•de (Florian Meier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv7] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:37:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528A260D.7090807@koalo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384785017.14845.214.camel@smile>

>>>> +static enum dma_status bcm2835_dma_tx_status(struct dma_chan *chan,
>>>> +	dma_cookie_t cookie, struct dma_tx_state *txstate)
>>>> +{
>>>
>>> []
>>>
>>>> +	} else {
>>>> +		txstate->residue = 0;
>>>
>>> Useless assignment since dmaengine will do this for you in
>>> dma_cookie_status.
>>
>> I agree that it is useless, but I think otherwise it might be concealed
>> that there is a third case left that uses a residue of 0. Do you think a
>> comment is better? E.g.:
>>
>> +	} else {
>> +		/* residue = 0 per default */
> 
> I think like in many other DMA drivers either you have separate function
> to get residue, which returns 0, or just not include this case.

You mean like in the omap-dma.c? ;-P

>>>> +static int bcm2835_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>> +{
> 
>>>> +	uint32_t chans_available;
>>>
>>> Why uint32_t?
>>
>> Because it is a bit mask of fixed length that directly comes from the
>> firmware.
> 
> Like one already told you in your i2s patch, please, change that to
> corresponding u* value, namely u32.

I have no problem with changing that, but why?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-17 15:39 [PATCHv7] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835 Florian Meier
2013-11-17 16:02 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-17 16:37   ` Florian Meier
2013-11-17 20:12     ` [PATCH] mmp_pdma: Style neatening Joe Perches
2013-11-28  9:34       ` Vinod Koul
2013-11-18 10:00 ` [PATCHv7] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835 Shevchenko, Andriy
2013-11-18 12:16   ` Florian Meier
2013-11-18 14:30     ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-11-18 14:37       ` Florian Meier [this message]
2013-11-18 14:54       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-18 15:04         ` Mark Rutland
2013-11-18 22:18         ` Joe Perches
2013-11-18 14:41 ` Mark Rutland

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