[PATCH 05/25] pxa3xx_nand: rework irq logic
Lei Wen
adrian.wenl at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 07:24:20 EDT 2010
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Lei Wen <adrian.wenl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Haojian Zhuang
>>> <haojian.zhuang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From 18d589a078871a09dec0862241fedd2d1d07be85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Lei Wen <leiwen at marvell.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:05:46 +0800
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 05/25] pxa3xx_nand: rework irq logic
>>>>
>>>> Enable all irq when we start the nand controller, and
>>>> put all the transaction logic in the pxa3xx_nand_irq.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Didn't look into the change too much, but the idea sounds to me like
>>> chaining all the logic with different IRQ events, which was my original
>>> reason of having different states. And considering the page read/write
>>> is actually to an internal SRAM within the controller, I guess it's quick
>>> enough. (though I'd suggest to do some experiments of time profiling
>>> to see if it's going to increase the interrupt latency)
>>>
>>>> By doing this way, we could dramatically increase the
>>>> performance by avoid unnecessary delay.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The removal of __read_id() doesn't look to be part of this patch, no?
>>>
>> For write_cmd function has been discard and __read_id function would
>> not be used, if
>> continue to keep the __read_id() definition would lead to make failure...
>>
>
> Well, the logic is: this change doesn't belong to this patch, so is it possible
> to separate the change apart and still keep it compiling?
>
Em... Seems reasonable, I'll try to do that. :-)
Best regards,
Lei
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