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From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: bbrezillon@kernel.org, richard@nod.at,
	Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>,
	frieder.schrempf@kontron.de, marek.vasut@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, kernel@pengutronix.de,
	Peter Pan <peterpandong@micron.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spinand: micron: add support for MT29F1G01AAADD
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:32:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190820103253.090f88ee@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190820082837.rvk2itycnka4vo6a@pengutronix.de>

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote on Tue, 20 Aug
2019 10:28:37 +0200:

> Hello Miquèl,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:17:18AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de> wrote on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
> > 10:22:32 +0200:  
> > > +static int mt29f1g01aaadd_ooblayout_ecc(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
> > > +					struct mtd_oob_region *region)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (section > 3)
> > > +		return -ERANGE;
> > > +
> > > +	region->offset = (section * 0x10) + 8;  
> > 
> > Any reason to use hex here?         ^
> > 
> > If not I would prefer decimal numbers.  
> 
> IMHO it is quite common to use hexadecimal also for register offsets,
> not only for register values.
> 
> I checked a few drivers (drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c,
> drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c, drivers/gpio/gpio-sch.c) and they all use hex
> also for the offsets, so it seems to be at least usual. Also as offsets
> for repeating registers are usually powers of two, hexadecimal constants
> are more suitable IMHO.

Absolutely. But here region->offset is not a register offset at all, it
is an indication for the upper layers of the position of an area within
a bigger buffer (here: where are the ECC bytes in my buffer in RAM). I
don't think hexadecimal numbers have any interest here.

Thanks,
Miquèl

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-20  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-14  8:22 [PATCH] mtd: spinand: micron: add support for MT29F1G01AAADD Marco Felsch
2019-08-19  8:17 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-08-19 13:30   ` Marco Felsch
2019-08-19 14:34     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-08-20  6:39       ` Marco Felsch
2019-08-20 11:31         ` [EXT] " Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy)
2019-08-20 11:33           ` Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy)
2019-08-21  7:19             ` Marco Felsch
2019-08-24 10:40               ` Miquel Raynal
2019-08-20 11:35           ` Marco Felsch
2019-08-20  8:28   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-20  8:32     ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
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2019-11-08  7:48 Marco Felsch

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