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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, Daniel.E.Messinger@seagate.com,
	Liran Schour <LIRANS@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:37:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123143758.GA3660@rhun.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B6115C.2010601@panasas.com>

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:

> >> +static inline int dma_uni_dir(enum dma_data_direction dir)
> >> +{
> >> +	return (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) || (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ||
> >> +	       (dir == DMA_NONE);
> >> +}
> > 
> > While this doesn't look very useful. Why is "DMA_NONE" a uni-dir? I
> > suggest replacing this with an open coded (dir != DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL).
> 
> The idea was to be resilient to invalid values. (dir != DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
> is fine of course, but I'd add a BUG_ON such as (dir < 0 || dir >
> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)

If DMA_NONE isn't actually allowed here, you can use valid_dma_direction().

Cheers,
Muli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21 23:21 [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction Boaz Harrosh
2007-01-22  0:24 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-01-22  6:06   ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-22 15:05     ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-01-22 15:31       ` James Bottomley
2007-01-23 13:37       ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-22 21:53     ` William Studenmund
2007-01-22  5:29 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-01-23 13:45   ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-23 14:37     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2007-01-23 15:17       ` Benny Halevy

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