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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Ensure src and dst registers are configured correctly
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304092238.07286.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130409190916.GF25316@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 09 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 09 April 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > Confusingly d40_log_cfg() is used to set up the logical channel
> > > configuration registers, but d40_phy_cfg() is used to configure
> > > physical and logical registers, so it should be called in both
> > > cases. It is the function call's final attribute which determines
> > > whether it's a physical or logical channel, not whether the
> > > function is called or not.
> > 
> > So how did it ever work? Your description sounds like it was
> > broken all along, but I would assume that someone tested the code.
> 
> From what I can see, not.
> 
> My best guess is that the 'test' was to see if the configuration
> changed using the debug print at the end of the function. I don't see
> how else the configuration can be written to hardware.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09 18:39 [PATCH 1/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Assign memcpy channels in the driver Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Move default memcpy configs into " Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Actually write the runtime configuration to registers Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:59   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 19:07     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-09 20:37   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-12 13:49   ` Rabin Vincent
2013-04-12 16:13     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-15 11:06     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-15 11:36       ` Rabin Vincent
2013-04-15 11:59         ` Lee Jones
2013-04-15 13:47           ` Linus Walleij
2013-04-15 14:28             ` Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Do not configure channels during an channel allocation Lee Jones
2013-04-12 13:54   ` Rabin Vincent
2013-04-12 16:38     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-14 16:34       ` Rabin Vincent
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Ensure src and dst registers are configured correctly Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:57   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 19:09     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-09 20:38       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-04-12 14:02   ` Rabin Vincent
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Move LCPA allocation and real-time config Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:56   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Use the BIT macro to replace ugly '(1 << x)'s Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 19:04   ` Harvey Harrison
2013-04-09 19:12     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-10  9:34       ` Lee Jones
2013-04-10 12:22         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-09 19:12     ` Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: ux500: Amalgamate DMA source and destination channel numbers Lee Jones
2013-04-09 18:51   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-24 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Assign memcpy channels in the driver Linus Walleij
     [not found]   ` <CAF2Aj3jHPvc=hOcgLq8LONppGtnxUPP96HRPLfCwQ5x4HONUOw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-24 15:05     ` Linus Walleij

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