Re: [RFC PATCHv2 2/7] OMAP SSI: Introducing OMAP SSI driver

[Carlos Chinea <carlos.chinea@nokia.com>]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:05 +0200, ext Sebastien Jan wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:07:20 Carlos Chinea wrote:
> [cut]
> > > > +       val |= __raw_readl(omap_ssi->sys +
> > > > SSI_MPU_ENABLE_REG(port->num, 0)); +       __raw_writel(val,
> > > > omap_ssi->sys +
> > > >  SSI_MPU_ENABLE_REG(port->num, 0)); +
> > > > +       msg->status = HSI_STATUS_COMPLETED;
> > > > +       msg->actual_len = sg_dma_len(msg->sgt.sgl);
> > > > +       spin_unlock(&omap_ssi->lock);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Don't you need to check the queue related to this transfer at this point,
> > > to start the potentially next queued transfer on the same channel?
> > > (calling ssi_start_transfer(), like in ssi_pio_complete()?)
> > 
> > No this is done in ssi_pio_complete(). Notice that we do not call the
> > complete callback at any point here. We just arm the pio interrupt for
> > that channel and transfer direction. AFAIK, this is the SW logic
> > expected by the OMAP SSI HW.
> 
> Ok, though I would not expect the interrupt to fire in an Rx scenario as the 
> fifo would have already been emptied by the DMA for this transfer (unless you 
> rely on the next transfer initiated by the peer to make the Rx interrupt fire 
> on this channel?)?

No I do not rely on the next RX transfer. I rely on the fact that the
GDD(DMA) controller does not reset the RX status bit for that channel
when RX transfer is finished.

Br,
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Carlos Chinea <carlos.chinea@nokia.com>