From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christophe Kerello Subject: Re: [ v3 3/3] mtd: rawnand: stm32_fmc2: add manual mode Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:56:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1543509663-26128-1-git-send-email-christophe.kerello@st.com> <1543509663-26128-4-git-send-email-christophe.kerello@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+gldm-linux-mtd-36=gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Linus Walleij Cc: Mark Rutland , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Vasut , Rob Herring , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Miqu=c3=a8l_Raynal?= , Brian Norris , David Woodhouse , linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, It is correct. I will replace "manual mode" by "polling mode" in next patchset. Regards, Christophe Kerello. On 12/7/18 10:16 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:42 PM Christophe Kerello > wrote: > >> This patch adds the manual mode, a basic mode that do not need >> any DMA channels. This mode is also useful for debug purpose. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe Kerello > > This is a bit of drive-by comment, but "manual mode" usually > means there is a person "a man" pulling levers and pushing > buttons. There is nothing manual inside a computer system. > > I think the more appropriate term is "polling mode" which is > what we call code that read registers directly waiting for status > flags rather than relying on IRQs or DMA flows. > > Yours, > Linus Walleij > ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/