From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Álvaro Fernández Rojas" <noltari@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: bcm6328: improve write and read functions
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:58:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210223085819.GB9750@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3826ACDE-EFF2-4CC5-82EE-2DBC991CF996@gmail.com>
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Hi!
> >> This is proven to work in BMIPS BE/LE and ARM BE/LE, as used in bcm2835-rng
> >> and bcmgenet drivers.
> >> Both should also be inline functions.
> >
> >
> >
> >> -#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> >> - iowrite32be(data, reg);
> >> -#else
> >> - writel(data, reg);
> >> -#endif
> >> + /* MIPS chips strapped for BE will automagically configure the
> >> + * peripheral registers for CPU-native byte order.
> >> + */
> >
> > Bad comment style.
>
> I just wanted to copy the same comment as the one in bcm2835-rng and bcmgenet…
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef100731/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c#L42-L60
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef100731/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c#L71-L88
>
Yeah, but ideally you should not be copying comments; there should be
one central place which does it and does it right.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-23 8:17 [PATCH 0/2] leds: bcm63x8: improve read and write functions Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2021-02-23 8:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] leds: bcm6328: improve write and read functions Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2021-02-23 8:34 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-23 8:42 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2021-02-23 8:58 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2021-02-23 9:05 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2021-02-23 17:00 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-24 17:36 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-24 17:45 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-24 21:45 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-23 8:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] leds: bcm6358: " Álvaro Fernández Rojas
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