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From: Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@mvista.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: titan code question
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:42:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A24134.8050004@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0411221936220.31113@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Manish Lachwani wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hence, they used this register. I am not sure if this is even 
>>documented. However, this code has been written based on the feedback 
>>from the chip designers. If you dont use this code, the MAC subsystem of 
>>titan will stop aligning IP headers and you will need to implement the 
>>code in the driver to do the aligning.
> 
> 
>  That means you should use macros for registers and their contents,
> preferably with some nearby documentation in the form of comments to
> clarify less obvious bits.  Otherwise you end up with an unmaintainable
> mess, especially once other sources of information drain out.
> 
>   Maciej

I agree that we need to provide documentation :)

Thanks
Manish Lachwani

      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-22 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-19 15:23 titan code question Thomas Koeller
2004-11-22 17:35 ` Manish Lachwani
2004-11-22 19:40   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-22 19:42     ` Manish Lachwani [this message]

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