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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Schilling <paul.s.schilling@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@samsung.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] ARM : SAMSUNG : Add RS485 support.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:55:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111101195517.5334482c@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=G6sxm9YJZsi_+Zq7YVYsQrw1SAFvnroPxGyH7JGRn7ko5nw@mail.gmail.com>

> The opinion part...  I needed a timer to switch from transmit to
> receive after the FIFO was empty.  I started by using the low
> resolution timer using jiffies first.  I found that wasn't high enough
> resolution, so I switched to the Linux HRT.  Currently I have both
> versions that can be selected by conditional compile.  Should I
> just remove the low resolution timer completely or leave it in.

I would just remove the low res one. They should degrade to low res
timer equivalence anyway.

> Second, I have a chunk of code that if it could be made to work
> could off load the receiving to DMA up to the last couple of bytes
> then switch back to interrupts for the token byte.  Should I leave
> that code in a #if 0 statement or should I just delete it.

Is it something that you are likely to debug or someone is going to
debug shortly ?
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From: alan@linux.intel.com (Alan Cox)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/14] ARM : SAMSUNG : Add RS485 support.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:55:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111101195517.5334482c@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=G6sxm9YJZsi_+Zq7YVYsQrw1SAFvnroPxGyH7JGRn7ko5nw@mail.gmail.com>

> The opinion part... ?I needed a timer to switch from transmit to
> receive after the FIFO was empty. ?I started by using the low
> resolution timer using jiffies first. ?I found that wasn't high enough
> resolution, so I switched to the Linux HRT.  Currently I have both
> versions that can be selected by conditional compile. ?Should I
> just remove the low resolution timer completely or leave it in.

I would just remove the low res one. They should degrade to low res
timer equivalence anyway.

> Second, I have a chunk of code that if it could be made to work
> could off load the receiving to DMA up to the last couple of bytes
> then switch back to interrupts for the token byte. ?Should I leave
> that code in a #if 0 statement or should I just delete it.

Is it something that you are likely to debug or someone is going to
debug shortly ?

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Schilling <paul.s.schilling@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@samsung.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] ARM : SAMSUNG : Add RS485 support.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:55:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111101195517.5334482c@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=G6sxm9YJZsi_+Zq7YVYsQrw1SAFvnroPxGyH7JGRn7ko5nw@mail.gmail.com>

> The opinion part...  I needed a timer to switch from transmit to
> receive after the FIFO was empty.  I started by using the low
> resolution timer using jiffies first.  I found that wasn't high enough
> resolution, so I switched to the Linux HRT.  Currently I have both
> versions that can be selected by conditional compile.  Should I
> just remove the low resolution timer completely or leave it in.

I would just remove the low res one. They should degrade to low res
timer equivalence anyway.

> Second, I have a chunk of code that if it could be made to work
> could off load the receiving to DMA up to the last couple of bytes
> then switch back to interrupts for the token byte.  Should I leave
> that code in a #if 0 statement or should I just delete it.

Is it something that you are likely to debug or someone is going to
debug shortly ?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <samsung_rs485>
2011-10-22  3:46 ` [PATCH 02/14] ARM : SAMSUNG : Add RS485 support Paul Schilling
2011-10-22  3:46   ` Paul Schilling
2011-10-22  3:46   ` Paul Schilling
2011-10-22 13:47   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-22 13:47     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-22 13:47     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 17:12     ` Paul Schilling
2011-10-23 17:12       ` Paul Schilling
2011-10-23 17:12       ` Paul Schilling
2011-10-23 20:20       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 20:20         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 20:20         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-01 12:18   ` Alan Cox
2011-11-01 12:18     ` Alan Cox
2011-11-01 14:57     ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 14:57       ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 14:57       ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:12       ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:12         ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:12         ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:22         ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:22           ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:22           ` Paul Schilling
2011-11-01 19:55           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-11-01 19:55             ` Alan Cox
2011-11-01 19:55             ` Alan Cox
2011-11-04 10:18   ` Nicolas Ferre
2011-11-04 10:18     ` Nicolas Ferre
2011-11-04 10:18     ` Nicolas Ferre

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