Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2013 20:09:16 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/8] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Ensure src and dst registers are configured correctly |
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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.
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