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From: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, "Kukjin Kim" <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
	"Vinod Koul" <vinod.koul@intel.com>, "Dan Williams" <djbw@fb.com>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Alessandro Rubini" <rubini@gnudd.com>,
	"Giancarlo Asnaghi" <giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com>,
	"Mark Brown" <broonie@kernel.org>,
	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	"Sangbeom Kim" <sbkim73@samsung.com>,
	"Liam Girdwood" <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@perex.cz>,
	"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"Padmavathi Venna" <padma.v@samsung.com>,
	"Thomas Abraham" <thomas.abraham@linaro.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Olof Johansson" <olof@lixom.net>,
	"Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>,
	"Sylwester Nawrocki" <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>,
	"Alban Bedel" <alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Use bitmap to pass variant specific quirks
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12368941.dQe8bcScGj@flatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617184856.GN2718@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Monday 17 of June 2013 19:48:56 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:54:08PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > Instead of defining new bool field in vendor_data struct for each
> > quirk, it is more reasonable to use a single flags field and make
> > each quirk use single bits.
> 
> Please explain why this is better over the existing system, and why it
> is not just churn for code modification's sake.

It isn't anything important. I just thought that this is a better solution 
to store more than just two flags. Initially I had more of them added in 
further patches, but final version ended with just one, so this can be 
dropped.

Best regards,
Tomasz


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-16 20:54 [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Use bitmap to pass variant specific quirks Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 18:48   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-17 18:56     ` Tomasz Figa [this message]
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Refactor pl08x_getbytes_chan() to lower indentation Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for different offset of CONFIG register Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 18:52   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-17 19:02     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for PL080S variant Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for different maximum transfer size Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Keep LLIs aligned to 4-word boundary Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] dmaengine: PL08x: Fix reading the byte count in cctl Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] dmaengine: PL08x: Add cyclic transfer support Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 18:56   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] spi: s3c64xx: Do not require legacy DMA API in case of S3C64XX Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] ASoC: samsung: " Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Add support for DMA using generic amba-pl08x driver Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 17:40 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA Mark Brown
2013-06-19 18:26   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 19:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-19 19:24       ` Mark Brown
2013-06-19 19:22     ` Mark Brown
2013-06-19 19:32       ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 22:48         ` Mark Brown
2013-06-20  9:24       ` Phil Carmody
2013-06-20 10:35         ` Mark Brown
2013-06-20 11:14           ` Phil Carmody
2013-06-21  9:47             ` Mark Brown

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