From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mmc: add bcm2835 driver
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:15:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5096A2B0.4030705@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121104163232.2bb93c5d@lilith>
On 11/04/2012 08:32 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:36:25 +0530, Vikram Narayanan
> <vikram186@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/2012 8:58 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2012 05:33 AM, Vikram Narayanan wrote:
>>>> Some nitpicks.
>>>>
>>>> On 10/24/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>> +static u8 bcm2835_sdhci_readb(struct sdhci_host *host, int reg)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + u32 val = bcm2835_sdhci_raw_readl(host, (reg& ~3));
>>>>> + val = val>> (reg<< 3& 0x18)& 0xff;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return (u8)val;
>>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>> Can the above used magics be made as macros?
>>>
>>> This code was taken directly from the downstream Linux kernel, so I
>>> changed it as little as possible, to make comparisons easier. Still, if
>>> people want I can certainly make it easier to understand the expression
>>> a bit.
>>
>> Seems reasonable.
>>
>>> I don't think the issue is the magic numbers so much as understanding
>>> what the expression does; the magic are obvious then. It's simply
>>> extracting byte n from from a u32. Would the following be more obvious:
>>>
>>> byte_num = reg& 3;
>>> byte_shift = bytenum * 8;
>>> byte = (val>> byte_shift)& 0xff;
>>>
>>> ... and similar for the other functions?
>>
>> This looks better to me than the former. Thanks.
>
> Stephen,
>
> Does this mean there'll be a new version of this patch?
>
> Amicalement,
Hopefully. I'm waiting on Signed-off-by lines from Oleksandr Tymoshenko
and Dom Cobley (assuming they can provide them...) before I make this
change and repost.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-04 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 4:50 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mmc: add bcm2835 driver Stephen Warren
2012-10-24 4:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] ARM: rpi_b: enable SD controller, add related env/cmds Stephen Warren
2012-10-26 11:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mmc: add bcm2835 driver Vikram Narayanan
2012-10-28 3:28 ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-28 17:06 ` Vikram Narayanan
2012-11-04 15:32 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-11-04 17:15 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-10-26 17:32 ` Tom Rini
2012-10-26 17:48 ` Oleksandr Tymoshenko
2012-10-26 18:05 ` Tom Rini
2012-10-26 18:21 ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-26 18:10 ` Greg KH
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