Re: [PATCH] 2/3 mtd: add support for flash on the SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Sat, 22 March 2008 18:39:07 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:32 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> > Given that you have ignored most of my previous comments, NAK. 
> 
> Not good enough, frankly. What comments have I ignored? I didn't
> implement your suggestion that a void* memory type become be32* because
> it was totally inappropriate for a type that is passed in both be32 and
> le32 and as u8.

Your argument would make sense if referring to a transport layer where
some structure is just passed along as payload data.  But you are
dereferencing a structure.  And instead of declaring a structure, you
still do this:
	((unsigned long *)sendbuf)[0] = cpu_to_be32(MAPLE_FUNC_MEMCARD);
	((unsigned long *)sendbuf)[1] = cpu_to_be32(partition << 24 | num);

If that is a valid description of "appropriate" in your dictionary then
we clearly don't speak the same language.  Even your own suggestion to
change the cast to (u32*) would have been an improvement.

> I'm sorry that you feel that way, but as you took the hump when I said
> that this:
> 
> "Possibly the big-endian annotations need to trickly though the layers
> here as well."
> 
> Isn't good english (and it's not) and asked you - twice - to explain
> what you meant. I cannot accept your summary.

s/trickly/trickle/

I tried to help you by a) reviewing the code and b) even converting the
function myself after deciding that you don't understand what I meant.  
Clearly this didn't work.  And maybe the problem is me, either because
my English is insufficient or I am a d***head.  Quite possible.

But even if I am the problem, you should be able to understand
somebody's review comments and act accordingly.  If not, I have a really
bad feeling about this.  And I hope someone else has more patience than
me, because this code still needs work.

Jörn

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