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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 2/4] ARM: 926ejs: use debug() for misaligned addresses
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:42:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204022042.48703.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJaTeToeyHQ-Rzu=QR2DMpFkQTuJwQba7=Fvqea6jyStiifXiw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Mike Frysinger,

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:18, Stefano Babic wrote:
> > Misaligned warnings are useful to debug faulty drivers.
> > A misaligned warning is printed also when the driver
> > is correct - use debug() instead of printf().
> 
> unfortunately, this turns the failure into a silent one.  if i read
> the code correctly, you still return an error in this code path which
> means things don't actually get flushed/invalidated.

You certainly do return an error, yes. And you don't do the op ... but then, 
what's the whole point of this check?

You can just ignore the return value in the flush() op, but I still don't like 
how this is ignored.

> to the original concept, i have no problem with cache funcs all
> warning on misalignment via debug() so developers can quickly see if
> things need to be reviewed.
> -mike

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 14:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM1136: add cache flush and invalidate operations Anatolij Gustschin
2012-03-30 14:20 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-30 14:35   ` Anatolij Gustschin
2012-03-30 15:04     ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-30 15:28       ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-30 15:42         ` Anatolij Gustschin
2012-03-30 15:58         ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-30 16:05           ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-30 16:16             ` Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 13:22 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] " Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 13:22   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] net: round up before calling flush_cache Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 13:46     ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-01 14:56       ` Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 15:35         ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-01 19:23     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-01 21:00       ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02  1:38         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-02  1:44           ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02  3:06             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-02  3:34               ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02  5:56                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-02  7:13       ` Stefano Babic
2012-04-02 14:03         ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02 14:38           ` Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 13:23   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mx35: flea3: fix when cache functions are linked Stefano Babic
2012-04-01 13:23   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] mx35: mx35pdk: " Stefano Babic
2012-04-02 16:18   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V3 1/4] ARM1136: add cache flush and invalidate operations Stefano Babic
2012-04-02 16:29     ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02 16:51     ` Stefano Babic
2012-04-02 16:18   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 2/4] ARM: 926ejs: use debug() for misaligned addresses Stefano Babic
2012-04-02 16:29     ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-02 18:23     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-02 18:42       ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-04-02 19:07         ` Mike Frysinger

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