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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	Thibaut VARENE <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>,
	alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, kyle@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH] Support for AD1889 PCI Soundchip
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:36:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050820013655.GC6376@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hr7cpdd9p.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Check his patch carefully.  It doesn't add any extra accesses (except
> for one readl to flush in irq handler - I guess it was added to be
> sure?).  The original driver didn't use these fields effectively at
> all, too.

Sorry - I didn't look at patch at all.
If the fields were never used, removing them is fine.
If they *could* have been used, then removing them is a bad idea.

In general, referencing parameters in IO device registers is NOT
a good substitute for caching the values "locally" in host mem.

hth,
grant


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-20  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-29 19:16 [PATCH] Support for AD1889 PCI Soundchip Thibaut VARENE
2005-07-29 19:20 ` [parisc-linux] " Thibaut VARENE
2005-07-29 19:20 ` Thibaut VARENE
2005-08-03 13:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2005-08-04 13:30 ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-04 13:30 ` [parisc-linux] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-11 15:18   ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-11 15:18   ` [parisc-linux] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-12  2:14     ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Kyle McMartin
2005-08-12  2:14     ` [parisc-linux] " Kyle McMartin
2005-08-12  7:17       ` Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-17  1:51         ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Kyle McMartin
2005-08-17  1:51         ` [parisc-linux] " Kyle McMartin
2005-08-17 13:50           ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-17 13:50           ` [parisc-linux] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-12  7:17       ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-17  9:10     ` [parisc-linux] " Thibaut VARENE
2005-08-18 15:35       ` Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-18 17:12         ` Lee Revell
2005-08-18 17:12         ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Lee Revell
2005-08-19 17:46         ` Grant Grundler
2005-08-19 17:46         ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler
2005-08-19 17:53           ` Takashi Iwai
2005-08-20  1:36             ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2005-08-22 11:03               ` Takashi Iwai
2005-08-23  0:13                 ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Grant Grundler
2005-08-23  0:13                 ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler
2005-08-23  9:11                   ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2005-08-23  9:11                   ` [parisc-linux] " Takashi Iwai
2005-08-28 12:57         ` Thibaut VARENE
2005-08-31  2:26           ` Kyle McMartin
2005-08-31  2:26           ` [parisc-linux] [Alsa-devel] " Kyle McMartin
2005-08-18 15:35       ` Clemens Ladisch
2005-08-17  9:10     ` Thibaut VARENE
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2005-07-29 19:16 [parisc-linux] " Thibaut VARENE

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