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From: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: hskinnemoen@atmel.com, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel <kernel@avr32linux.org>,
	dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atmel_spi: fix dma addr calculation for len > BUFFER_SIZE
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090929085751.3cc1fa3c@hskinnemoen-d830> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254185759.7587.180.camel@ben-desktop>

Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com> wrote:
> From: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] atmel_spi: make "len" variable name less ambiguous in dma addr calculation
> 
> "[PATCH] atmel_spi: fix dma addr calculation for len > BUFFER_SIZE"
> fixed a bug where the "len" variable in atmel_spi_next_xfer_data() was
> taken to be the total number of bytes remaining in the transfer but it
> actually represents the number of bytes which will be sent this dma
> chunk.  While the 2 will be the same if there is less than 1 chunk to go
> (or if we aren't using a scratch buffer and therefore aren't breaking
> the transfers in to chunks), they won't be the same in general.
> 
> s/len/next_len to reflect the true nature and usage of this variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>

Excellent, thanks.

Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-27  5:26 [PATCH] atmel_spi: fix dma addr calculation for len > BUFFER_SIZE Ben Nizette
2009-09-28  7:12 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2009-09-29  0:55   ` Ben Nizette
2009-09-29  6:57     ` Haavard Skinnemoen [this message]

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