Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:19:06 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/32] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Supply macros to resolve 'src' and 'dst' directions |
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote: > > > There are lots of lengthy if() statements located sporadically up and > > down the driver. This simple macro should make many of them a little > > simpler to decipher. The remainder have to stay in place, as they > > detail slightly more specific settings. > > > > Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> > > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com> > > Cc: Per Forlin <per.forlin@stericsson.com> > > Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> > (...) > > > +#define D40_IS_SRC(dir) ((dir == STEDMA40_PERIPH_TO_MEM) ? true : false) > > And when I reas the code and see D40_IS_SRC, what does that > mean? That the channel is a source of .. what exactly? > > The older explicit comparison would be more informative. > > > +#define D40_IS_DST(dir) (((dir == STEDMA40_MEM_TO_PERIPH) || \ > > + (dir == STEDMA40_MEM_TO_MEM)) ? true : false) > > + > > The comparison to STEDMA40_MEM_TO_MEM is unintelligible, if I see > that macro it has a very unintuitive name, since it is not just > DST but also SRC. > > The latter macro would be named somthing like D40_IS_DST_OR_MEM2MEM > and then it will not simplify the code very much. > > You need to come up with something different here, this is just making the > driver harder to understand. > > I think this patch should be just dropped.
Okay.
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