[PATCH V4 03/14] DMA: PL330: Support DMA_SLAVE_CONFIG command

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jul 26 09:12:57 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:04:10PM +0900, Boojin Kim wrote:
> Vinod Koul Wrote:
> > I meant you should use proper fields for passing info, which in this
> > case would be dst_maxburst for specifying destination burst sizes
> I think the naming seems to make confusion.
> 'Peri->burst_sz' on this code means the width of fifo in bytes of the peri. 
> It's same with the meaning 'xxx_addr_width'. So, I think it's proper usage.
> 'peri->burst_sz' is passed to PL330 HW. PL330 HW wants to get the power of 2 
> based the fifo width for it.
> For example, If fifo width is 8 bytes, PL330 HW should get '3' for it.
> And I will modify code to consider xxx_maxburst.

IMHO from your description above, peri->burst_sz is misnamed.  Please
add a comment at this location to say something like:

	/* peri->burst_sz is the peripheral fifo width */

to explain this.

Thanks.



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